Gifts The Year You Were Born

The Year You Were Born

Illustration of the finished almanac, with a sample name

Illustration of The Year You Were Born almanac open at June 1953, beside the green cloth hardback, on an oak table

Open and closed

Illustrated sample spread for June 1953: the Coronation, Everest and the fleet review, and what things cost in March 1953

A sample spread

Illustration of the green cloth cover with gold lettering: The Year You Were Born, 1953, Margaret Ann Holloway (a sample name)

The cover

A hardback almanac of their birth year: the news month by month, the prices, the number ones, and the town they were born in.

The pictures are illustrations of the finished almanac, typeset by us for Margaret Ann Holloway (a sample name), born in 1953. The dates and prices on the sample pages are real and sourced.

What's included

The year month by month
Then-and-now prices
Popular baby names: for births from 1996, the names of their own year; before 1996, the nearest ten-yearly top 100 (1954, 1964 and so on to 1994), labelled as such
Their birthplace that year
The weather chart for their birthday
A gift message printed inside
UK delivery

Formats and Christmas dates

Printable PDF almanac: £19, order by Tuesday 22 December for Christmas
Hardback almanac + PDF (32 pages): £49, order by Monday 30 November for Christmas

Real records, honestly used. We build each item from archives and published sources, and say so where the record is incomplete. We email a proof before printing. We never research living private individuals.