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As I sit and wait for the call to connect with Amanda Mason, the historian behind Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style, a new exhibition at The Imperial War Museum North, I wonder what it is about clothing from bygone eras that has piqued our interest.

Like many kids in the early 80s I was given Delrosa Rosehip Syrup whenever a cold threatened me.

“There was always this kind of sense with Shelagh that if she was going to make it, she’d have to go to London and that’s a shame." Shelagh Delaney biographer Selina Todd talks to Northern Soul's @MrGeetsRomo northernsoul.me.uk/tastes-of-… #Salford pic.twitter.com/iFtX7iiG8L

“I write the books that shout loudest in my head.” Northern Soul's @dannyxmoran talks to crime author Val McDermid at @HarrogateFest as her latest chiller, How The Dead Speak, is published. northernsoul.me.uk/i-write-th… pic.twitter.com/6hUwMq2d7D

@NicolaSturgeon “I write the books that shout loudest in my head.” Northern Soul's @dannyxmoran talks to crime author Val McDermid at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival northernsoul.me.uk/i-write-th… pic.twitter.com/iYsrUq7TPH