1908: Olympics, suffragettes ... and Bisto

A LOAF cost 2½d – around 1p in modern money – and a pint of beer about two-thirds of that.

The Olympics were held in London. Great Britain and Ireland topped the table with 56 golds.

Explorer Ernest Shackleton left New Zealand for the Antarctic.

Robert Baden-Powell published Scouting For Boys, launching the worldwide movement.

The first major suffragette rally was staged by up to 500,000 women in Hyde Park, London.

David Lloyd-George became Chancellor and Winston Churchill joined the Cabinet for the first time, heading the Board of Trade.

Manchester United won their first trophy, for topping the First Division.

The Daily Mail sponsored the first Ideal Home exhibition at Olympia. Bisto went on the market. James Bond creator Ian Fleming and the first Doctor Who, William Hartnell, were born.