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I was born in 1964 in Bromley, London.
That was the year that UK Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home was making way for Harold Wilson at Number 10, while across the Pond, US President Lyndon B. Johnson had stepped into the shoes of the late John F. Kennedy, assassinated the year before.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev was deposed and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.
We had no home computers or laptops, iPhones or iPads. No internet or digital cameras. Entertainment meant tuning in to BBC1 or ITV, and the idea of streaming your favourite show was as far-fetched as a trip to the moon (that wouldn’t happen for another five years by the way).
There were no cash machines, GPS, LED lighting or flat-screen TVs.
But there was a lot of love. This was the swinging sixties when London became the ‘capital of cool’, the ‘anything goes’ era. Top of the Pops was first broadcast in the UK and The Beatles were becoming a worldwide phenomenon.
As for my small part in this unfolding tapestry, I have spent over thirty years helping small businesses to grow; sometimes my own, sometimes others’. I ran a small brewery selling craft beer in the late 90s and naughties, and since then have consulted for a wide range of other people’s businesses.
I have spent the last 26 years helping my three kids to grow too.
Throughout all those business and family experiences, a common theme has been that of “storytelling”. Successful businesses thrive on telling stories and children thrive on listening to them. In fact, stories are essential to us all.
The Dates with History newsletter is one of my passions. I have so much fun sharing fascinating stories from history, exploring a wide range of relevant events each week.
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Thanks again.
Steve.
Some of my most popular articles:
Otto von Bismarck and the Siege of Paris
Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Miss Harriet Smithson
Garibaldi, I Mille and the Unification of Italy
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I decided that if I was going to ask people to share their stories, I ought to share one myself! Take a look at how I got on - Secondhand Embarrassment.
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