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The Oldie, published in English, is a magazine from United Kingdom. Access The Oldie online on PressReader or download issues to read later. Browse The Oldie back issues in the archive.
Gout was the disease of the grand – or so they used to think. The result of glorious excess was a problem in the lower legs. The 1799 Gillray cartoon (pictured, right) on the cover of Dorian Haskard’s new book, The Gout, shows a toff with his...
Ifirst set eyes on David Hockney in 1965, on a day out from Eton to London, when my mother took me to the Kasmin Gallery in Bond Street, where Hockney had his first one-man show in 1963. But I really got to know him in 2004. I was at home in...
It was March 2003 and I was launching my biography of the film producer Sam Spiegel. ‘Can I bring a TV crew to your book party,’ emailed Toby Young, ‘or will Harold freak?’ Toby was referring to Harold Pinter (1930-2008), my stepfather, known...
Once upon a time not long ago – these things move fast – an acronym of the day was DWEM: Dead White European Male(s). Christopher Howse with Michael Heath riffed on it in The Oldie’s May issue (‘Great Bores of Today – The Modern World’). Possibly...
