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Are there ten or more people in your address book who are dead? Do you save string?…
We have been videoing the speeches at our Literary Lunches. This week: Tony Benn.
We list forthcoming memorial services. Want to publicise a service? Email us and we'll add it to the listing.

'OK, so maybe you didn't do it – but surely you've done something that you do deserve to die for?'
The world's greatest awards ceremony took place on Tuesday 11 March. Who won the much-coveted gongs? Find out here
The story of Martin Allen, the self-styled "eminent historian" who published a book in 2005 accusing my father of assassinating Heinrich Himmler on the orders of Winston Churchill, was revived last week in The Financial Times
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FOR fifteen years The Oldie has been publishing tales of chance enounters with the famous and infamous – writers, artists, politicians, rogues, murderers and more besides. Browse a selection from our archive here.