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Originally published in the Guardian on 24 August 1990: 'I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.'

Originally published in the Guardian on 18 February 1988: It is just possible to remember the early rapture of a Tandy (portable computer), I can date the onset of it, as one can with all first loves: February 1983 in the postwar Falklands

She helped hide Anne Frank from the Nazis, and saved the girl's diary for posterity

From the archive, May 7 1994: On board, the Queen and 799 other VIPs were heading to become the first people to cross from England to France by dry land for 6,000 years

William McGonagall is under the direst threat today in his apparently unassailable position as author of the world's worst poem.

There's no doubt Oxford University's Bodleian library needs more space, so is the fierce opposition justified?