Credit: Alchetron Martina Navratilova was nearly unbeatable in 1983, winning 86 of her 87 matches. The only exception was a gritty performance by 17-year-old Kathy Horvath in Paris.

Hugh Gaitskell’s words to the October 1960 Conference stimulated me to be an active member of the Labour Party and shook me out of the complacency of armchair socialism. I can still remember watching ...

The aging Clement Attlee had stepped down not long after Labour's defeat in 1955 making way for Hugh Gaitskell. But with a consumer society growing quickly it was uncertain how well Labour's ...

Lord Donoughue was lecturing at the LSE in 1963 - very much a Gaitskell supporter he was later to become Harold Wilson's policy advisor and a minister. And Lord Hennessy - one of Britain's best ...