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Teeth were in the headlines this week after it was announced that Winston Churchill’s dentures, designed specifically to preserve his lisp, are to be sold at auction. The teeth, which were frequently thrown across the room by the man himself,...
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The holocaust, one hardly needs reminding, was a story of destruction. Although Hollywood tends to favour untypical narratives of survival and rescue, historians have for the most part not offered detailed analyses of these phenomena. Yet while the...
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I’ve always considered Jedburgh (Jeddart to its residents) to be one of the most welcoming towns in Britain. It’s a lively place and the staff in its large visitor centre are unfailingly polite, helpful, patient and friendly.
Yet there...
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Elizabeth Fry was a formidable woman whose devotion to institutional and particularly prison reform during the first half of the 19th century brought her a national and international reputation that has endured. Making extensive use of diaries and...
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The Greek and Roman galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge have recently been completely renovated and re-designed. The Fitzwilliam is not the only museum to have been giving its collections a shake up. The Ashmolean museum in Oxford...
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The study of the conduct of relations between one or more sovereign states by official representatives of one sovereign state resident in another – otherwise known as diplomacy – once stood at the pinnacle of academic history. But that...
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This book investigates the “importance of generalship in bringing” the British Civil Wars “to a successful conclusion”. While Malcolm Wanklyn accepts that the outcome of the British Civil Wars was determined by several...
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It’s been a good week for archaeologists after a second circular monument was discovered at Stonehenge, sited about 900 metres from the existing stones – the most exciting find there for 50 years. Archaeologists believe that timber posts...
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Football is perhaps the most popular sport on the planet. How did it achieve this level of global dominance and become the ‘people’s game’? Sanders’s delightful book takes us back to 19th-century Britain, where sporting...
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At the turn of the 20th century the controversial case of Alfred Dreyfus was resonating around the globe. This French artillery officer of Jewish descent had been wrongly convicted of passing intelligence to the Germans and cruelly imprisoned on a...
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The campaign of arson and violent confrontation waged by the suffragettes in the first decade of the 20th century smashed the complacent façade of Edwardian Britain.
Florid press reports of ladies attacking MPs, burning churches and being...
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Hitting the history headlines this week is the news that Camelot historians believe they have finally discovered the location of King Arthur’s Round Table – and it could have seated upwards of 1,000 people! The recent discovery of an...
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At the end of his highly readable chronicle of the lives and loves of the Stuart family, arguably Britain’s most successful royal dynasty, Allan Massie concludes: “It was a long journey from the salt-marshes of Brittany to the...
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