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When the British and Maori signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Governor Hobson declared: 'We are one people'. Today, as Professor Keith Sinclair shows, this hope has still to be realised. |
R. E. Foster explains how law and order were institutionalised in the 16th century. Published in History Review, Issue: 71
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The leading Victorian radical and Liberal poltician John Bright was born on November 16th 1811. |
Dorothy Sherindan, the Archivist of Mass-Observation at the University of Sussex, traces its development - and revival in the 1980s. Published in History Today, Volume: 34 Issue: 7
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Fifty years ago a British film challenged widespread views on homosexuality and helped to change the law. Andrew Roberts looks at the enduring impact of Basil Dearden’s Victim. |
There is nothing new or exceptional about the recent English riots and they will have little long-term impact, argues Tim Stanley. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 10
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Jez Ross corrects misunderstandings about the origins and significance of disturbances in 1549. |
Chris Corin ressurects the life of a Soviet survivor whose remarkable and significant career deserves to be better known. |
Andrew Boxer demonstrates the ways in which external events affected the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. |
Ben Sandell examines the origins, influence and significance of a group of often misunderstood radicals. |
Richard Wilkinson finds much to enjoy in the opening volumes of a comprehensive new series on British social history. |
Robert Pearce has been pleasantly surprised at the quality of a new textbook. |
Benjamin Zachariah helps to debunk the romantic 'Legend of the Mahatma'. |
Lindsay Pollick reviews changing interpretations. |
R. E. Foster sifts myth from reality in the life of the 'Lady with the Lamp', who died 100 years ago. |
‘Have the authors of a two-penny weekly journal, a right to make a national inquiry'? 18th-century governments thought not and neither did the newspapers’ readers of the time. |
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