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1939 Eric Goldrein celebrated his 100th birthday on 29 May 2021; his birthday party was attended by the Pipes and Drums of the 103rd Regiment of the Royal Artillery (in which Eric served during World War II) playing him ‘Happy Birthday’ and Sir Brian Leveson PC gave the speech in his honour. 1957 Nicholas Flemming’s book Apollonia on my Mind: The Memoir of a Paraplegic Ocean Scientist was published by Sidestone Press. 1958 Bernard Adams’s translation of Architecture in Hungary was published by Corvina. 1961 John Nicholas’s book (co-authored with George Reeve) Main Line to the South – Part One: The Southern Railway Route Between Basingstoke and Southampton was published by Irwell Press. 1963 Malcolm Haslett’s The Mountain on the Other Side of Light trilogy (comprising A Cry for Help (2018), The Search for the Opening (2019), and Fles (2020)) was published by Austin Macauley Publishers. 1964 Anthony Campbell was awarded a CBE in the 2021 New Year’s Honours list for his services to biochemistry. His book Mirror Image: What Darwin Missed was published by Welston Press. 1967 Cliff Webb’s three volume work Haberdasher’s Company Membership Records 1500–1800 was published by the British Record Society. 1970 Melvyn Jones’s book That Contentious Spirituality was published by Shield Books. Robbie Low’s children’s book Mama Mia and the Pizza Pie Party (with artwork by Jan Burrell) was published by Lostwithiel Letters, with all proceeds going to charities working with disadvantaged children. 1972 Sam Blyth was made an Advisory Board Member of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 1973 Roger Ferguson became a board member of Cambridge in America. 1977 Neil Cadwallader was appointed a Specialist Civil Circuit Judge. 1978 Martin Rowson’s lockdown diary in verse, Plague Songs, was published by Smokestack Books. He also illustrated Luke Wright’s poetry collection The Ballad Seller (Nasty Little Press) and published eight specially commissioned drawings from the latter years of Laurence Sterne’s life under the titled Yorick’s Progress (Shandy Hall Press). 1979 Simon McDonald became a life peer, becoming Baron McDonald of Salford. He was also awarded a GMCG for services to British foreign policy in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. 1983 John Sharpley was awarded a CBE for his work as Surgeon Captain in the Royal Navy. 1984 Gail Davey was awarded an OBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to tackling neglected tropical diseases. Robert Porter’s book For the Love of Fish: An Aquarist’s Journey was published by Ichtheon.

Tom Shakespeare was awarded a CBE for services to disability research in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. 1985 Marcus Nodder’s book I Am: The Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions was published by Inter-Varsity Press. 1987 Ian Maclean was awarded an MBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to the UK textile industry and the Covid-19 response. 1990 Val Gibson was awarded an OBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to science, women in science, and public engagement. Julian Norton’s book A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter was published by Coronet. 1991 Adrian Brettle’s book Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World was published by the University of Virginia Press. He also curated the American Civil War Museum’s Southern Ambitions exhibit. Caroline Mackenzie (née Dargies)’s book A Latin Lexicon: An Illustrated Compendium of Latin Words and English Derivatives was published by Archaeopress. 1995 John Aston was knighted in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for his services to statistics and public policymaking. 1996 John Palfrey’s book (co-authored with Urs Gasser) The Connected Parent: An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World was published by Basic Books. 1997 Andy Mydellton’s book Victorian Tottenham Hotspur was published by TSL Publications. 1999 John Bew led the UK government’s integrated review Global Britain in a Competitive Age, which was published in March 2021. Ed Yong – who works as a staff writer specialising in science at The Atlantic – was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. 2007 Greg Buchanan’s novel Sixteen Horses was published by Mantle. 2014 Alexander Waghorn was made a Fellow in Law at Selwyn College, Cambridge. 2015 Myfanwy Hill was made Loke Fellow in Medical Sciences at King’s College, Cambridge. 2016 Livia Russell was the joint winner of the 2020 Society of Italian Studies Undergraduate Prize for her dissertation on ‘Contact and intimacy: Mario Giacomelli’s photo-poetic encounters’. 2017 Stephanie Smith’s debut novel What’s Left of Me is Yours was published by Orion. It was subsequently longlisted for the 2021 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and the 2021 Jhalak Prize Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour. 2019 Gabriel Jamie was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.