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Selsdon Man was the mocking nickname applied to Heath in the 1970 election, portraying him as a Thatcherite avant la lettre.
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook Francis Wheen 2010
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"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years.
CNN: Rare Helen Keller photo discovered BA Haller 2008
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Continuity presenters and playout facilities for Milkshake! will be housed at Portland TV's Selsdon Way premises in Docklands, east London.
Northern and Shell's Paul Ashford to oversee Channel 5 programming 2010
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Selsdon told The AP, "the photograph is valuable because it shows many elements of Keller's childhood: that devotion, Sullivan's push to teach Helen outdoors and Helen's attachment to her baby dolls, one of which was given to her upon Sullivan's arrival as her teacher."
CNN: Rare Helen Keller photo discovered BA Haller 2008
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In 1877 Danbury Palace had to be given up and Selsdon in
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The eye is caught by reports this week revealing that the venue for the X Factor bootcamp is the Selsdon Park hotel in Croydon.
The Guardian World News Marina Hyde 2011
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Naturally, it would take a media historian of the calibre of David Starkey to make some point about what has happened to Britain in the intervening four decades, and to declare some causal link between the ideals of Selsdon Man and the hellscape of the X Factor bootcamp and all it represents.
The Guardian World News Marina Hyde 2011
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As Tulisa never tires of pointing out, the Selsdon Park hotel's claim to fame is as the location for the 1970 conference of Edward Heath's shadow cabinet, which gave birth to a radical free-market agenda.
The Guardian World News Marina Hyde 2011
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Though denounced as "the work of Selsdon Man" by Harold Wilson, and largely abandoned by Heath under pressure, the flame was kept burning on the right, and when its advocates formed the Selsdon Group, it was at the Selsdon Park that they met again.
The Guardian World News Marina Hyde 2011
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But given that Simon is an avowed free marketeer, who is on record as saying that he hero-worships Margaret Thatcher, Lost in Showbiz insists you regard his choice of the Selsdon Park as a clarion call indicating where our befuddled nation should go from here.
The Guardian World News Marina Hyde 2011
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