Eva Marie Saint is 101 years old today. North By Northwest (1959) Eva is the oldest living Oscar winner, and one of the last living stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. This scene with Cary Grant is still one of the hottest scenes ever filmed. This is how you do it, kids.

This is Textus Roffensis. It contains the oldest surviving text written in old English as well as the oldest English lawcode.

#OnThisDay 1945: Voters in the United Kingdom and those serving overseas went to the polls in the first general election for ten years. The result was a landslide victory for Clement Attlee's Labour Party. LAB: 47.7% (+9.7) CON: 36.2% (-11.6) LIB 9.0% (+2.3)

#OTD 1888: Women and girls working at Bryant and May's match factory in Bow, London, went on strike over poor working conditions. Low pay for a 14-hour day was cut even further if workers talked or went to the toilet, and bone cancer caused by white phosphorus was common.

Health minister Aneurin Bevan marked the creation of the National Health Service #OTD 1948 by attending a ceremony at Park Hospital, Davyhulme (later renamed Trafford General), where he symbolically received the keys. I had my tonsils out there in 1960.

Nye Bevan launched the NHS #OnThisDay in 1948. Just days later, he came to speak from the platform at the #DurhamMinersGala. The former coal miner said: “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”

Time to chat biggest stories from last week with RNIB CEO Matt Stringer. This week the focus is on the Welfare Reform Bill vote, which happened on Tuesday 1st of July, and the publication of the NHS 10-year Health plan for England. audioboom.com/posts/8744108-…

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What does the VI Community think of the Welfare Reform Bill? As the UK Government continues conversations around the Welfare Reform Bill, we spoke with blind and partially sighted people to find out what they thought of the result of the vote. audioboom.com/playlists/4635…

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The oldest wooden escalator is located in Sint-Annatunnel, Belgium 1933

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Which embedded Slavery as a founding principle. You are quite right - there's nothing like the USA🤔