Centurians

6 February 2000

What do Freud’s seminal text, the English Labour Party and the Queen Mother
all have in common? Along with the Mercedes car, the Daily Express and the
hamburger, they were all born in the year 1900. Intrigued? Hunter Davies’s Born
1900 profiles the century through 28 people, things and institutions that
survived it. Published by Warner Books, £7.99, ISBN 0751526509.

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