Tag Archives: British History
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Why do we need another book about Queen Victoria? The last time I checked, there were over 1,500 entries for the Queen as a subject in WorldCat.
Yet on this, the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s...
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Like many other countries, Britain faces a desperate housing crisis. The disaster at Grenfell Tower, rising rough sleeping and homelessness, a dismal private rental market, despair among millennials...
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The rise and fall of convict transportation in the British Empire is often told as a Gothic melodrama. John Mitchel, the Young Ireland leader transported for treason, was typical in referring to the British...
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Are we really a United Kingdom? In a year that has seen the British public trying to grasp the politics at play with the dreaded B-word, we look back at some key moments in British politics and social...
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I can still remember the first time I heard about Pitcairn Island. I was a young child, not even a teenager, when I found an old Book Club edition of Nordhoff and Hall’s fictional trilogy detailing the...
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Why do we need another book about Queen Victoria? The last time I checked, there...
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Like many other countries, Britain faces a desperate housing crisis. The disaster...
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The rise and fall of convict transportation in the British Empire is often told as...
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Are we really a United Kingdom? In a year that has seen the British public trying...
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I can still remember the first time I heard about Pitcairn Island. I was a young...
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