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'Crisis? What crisis?' was Prime Minster James Callaghan's response to Britain's Winter of Discontent in 1979. However, he never actually said those words. A compendium of wrongly-attributed quotations. By Christopher Winn | Posted Wed 11th January, 09:05
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After decades of advance, democracy in Europe has begun to look curiously vulnerable. By Paul Lay | Posted Tue 10th January, 08:25
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Juliet Gardiner reviews John Forster's biography of Charles Dickens. By Juliet Gardiner | Posted Tue 10th January, 07:30
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A pictorial history of the London Zoological Society, which in the 1820s set about collecting specimens that would form the basis of the capital's zoo. By Kathryn Hadley | Posted Mon 9th January, 12:03
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The author of Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace (Faber & Faber), and presenter of the BBC TV series, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home discusses her work with Paul Lay. By Paul Lay | Posted Mon 9th January, 08:30
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In this month's edition we discuss the difficult legacy of the Treaty of Versailles, and the origins of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. By Dean Nicholas | Posted Sun 8th January, 17:25
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Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago today. An insight into how she has been used as a political symbol and been an incarnation of French national pride for the past six centuries. By Kathryn Hadley | Posted Fri 6th January, 12:22
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146 volumes of veterinary medicine reports from the collections of the National Library of Scotland have been digitised and are freely available on the Medical History of British India website. By Kathryn Hadley | Posted Thu 5th January, 11:15
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Simon Armitage, author of a recent translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, goes on the hunt for the medieval poem's origins. By Dean Nicholas | Posted Thu 5th January, 09:30
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A pair of new books offer differing takes on the stoicism of British explorers in search of geographical extremes. By Henry Nicholls | Posted Wed 4th January, 14:35
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A new interactive website allows users to overlay data over historical maps of London. By Dean Nicholas | Posted Wed 4th January, 08:50
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Roger Moorhouse on a book that provides a powerful antidote to fashionable nostalgia for life in the GDR. By Roger Moorhouse | Posted Mon 2nd January, 09:00
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Wrap your brain around questions on the first English newspaper, the last king of Burma, the real Macbeth and more. By Dean Nicholas | Posted Sun 1st January, 22:00
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Michael Bloch reviews Norman Davies' Vanished Kingdoms: an 'enjoyable and idiosyncratic historical excursion'. By Michael Bloch | Posted Wed 21st December, 11:12
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