ON JULY 30th ...

IN 1966, BBC sports commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme uttered his immortal words: ‘Some people are on the pitch. They think it’s all over. It is now!’ as Geoff Hurst scored and England won the World Cup. In 1837, the first Mormons in Britain were baptised in Preston’s River Ribble. In 1935, the first ever Penguin book was published — a biography of Shelley, called Ariel. In a time when most hardback books cost eight shillings (40p), this new massmarket paperback cost just 6d (2½p).