Today we had the real privilege of meeting Howard Zinn, the author of 'A People's History of the United States'. Having started his working life in the shipyards, Howard became a bombardier in the US airforce during the Second World War, before he went to college under the GI Bill. He was, and remains, an anti-war activist, and a truly unique historian - more interested in analysing history through the eyes of ordinary working men and women, than Presidents or 'great men'.