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  • The Queen And Milton Keynes (17 June 1977)

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    The Queen And Milton Keynes (17 June 1977)
    Two days before the Queen’s Silver Jubilee there appeared in the Sunday Express a feature article which greatly interested me.  It was written by the former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, and it was headed “How the Queen made me feel like a schoolboy who had not done his homework”. The article turned out to be ...
  • Johnny Kincaid

    MNC/065
    Johnny Kincaid
    Johnny was born in Battersea in 1945 and brought up from 12 to 15½ in a children’s home. He was a professional wrestler and moved to Milton Keynes, to Fishermead, in 1976 because it was more convenient for northern venues. He became licensee of The Bow Bells on the Lakes Estate in May 1983, after ...
  • Dr Mohammed Iqbal Adil

    MNC/064
    Dr Mohammed Iqbal Adil
    Mohammed was born in Pakistan in 1958 and graduated in medicine in Pakistan in 1986. He moved to the UK in 1990 and got his Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons in 1995. He returned to Pakistan as an Assistant Professor at a Teaching Hospital but returned to the UK a year after getting ...
  • Zainuddin Khalili

    MNC/063
    Zainuddin Khalili
    There is no summary of this interview available as it was conducted in Pashto, but an audio file can be made available on request.
  • Najiba Khalili

    MNC/062
    Najiba Khalili
    There is no summary of this interview available as it was conducted in Pashto, but an audio file can be made available on request.
  • Tamana Azizi

    MNC/061
    Tamana Azizi
    There is no summary of this interview available as it was conducted in Pashto, but an audio file can be made available on request.
  • Sara Latifi

    MNC/060
    Sara Latifi
    A summary of this interview is not available as it was conducted in Pashto. An audio file of the interview can be made available on request.
  • Peter Kingham

    MNC/059
    Peter Kingham
    Peter Kingham was born in 1972. He grew up in Moulsoe, where his father was a farmer, and now lives in Wolverton, where he enjoys the great sense of community. He now works for the Foreign Office, at Hanslope Park, where he runs LGBT network. As a gay man, Peter has been a part of Q: ...
  • Taryn Field

    MNC/058
    Taryn Field
    Taryn Field was born in 1976 born in Plymouth, but grew up in Israel and South Africa, where both of her parents were from. She returned to the UK, moving to Milton Keynes, when she was 19. She lived in a community in Winslow for about 13 years with her husband and children, before she ...
  • Osazeme Osaghae

    MNC/057
    Osazeme Osaghae
    Osazeme Osaghae was born in September 1995, in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Whilst he was growing up, he lived in Germany and Switzerland; he came to Milton Keynes whilst doing GCSEs. Before he came, he had heard that MK was an up-and-coming city, but also quite green. He was impressed by the sense of innovation and ...
  • Manny Ademolu

    MNC/056
    Manny Ademolu
    Manny was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1992 and moved to the Uk when he was a child; his family settled in MK in 2006; his initial impression was of how peaceful it was. He attended St Pauls Roman Catholic school. Milton Keynes was the first place he felt like he fitted in. He talks ...
  • Toni Harrison

    MNC/055
    Toni Harrison
    Toni Harrison, born in Vietnam, moved to Biggleswade, UK and then to Milton Keynes in the early 1990s, at the age of 18/19. Identifying as a Black Lesbian, she says: ‘there wasn’t much of …a Lesbian scene’. The Open University had a gay event once a month and there was also a monthly women’s disco ...
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