9 August

On this day…
1958 – Cliff Richard performed at Butlin’s Holiday Camp in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, as Cliff Richard and The Drifters:
Bulaya Chanda worked with Butlin before the Holiday Camps were started.
Music features strongly in: Passing Passions; Cold Fiction; The Grumpy Crumpet Club; Love’s Register
1999 – Charles Kennedy won the race to succeed Paddy Ashdown as leader of the Liberal Democrats. For a political read try The Asset.

National Women’s Day in South Africa: Marking the day in 1953 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria protesting about carrying passes.
The following authors are all South African women…
Robbie Cheadle
Ilona Hawkins
JM Kearsley
Jo Meintjes (Merlyn)
Mavis Pachter
Lesley Samson

And one, not South African, but who is known for protesting is Sue Hampton.