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Bureaucrats in their own words
John Profumo and Christine Keeler, 1963 - R101 - Rillington Place - The Boer War, 1900 - The British Invasion of Tibet - The Judgement of Nuremberg, 1946 - The Loss of the Titanic, 1912 - The Strange...
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Wars that shaped the world
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval World
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Between Stalin and Lady Muriel
Inside Stalin's Russia
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The race that became Iran
Frontier Fictions
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Spreading the good news
Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999
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The attraction of poles
Farthest North
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Deaths on the Nile
The Black Pharaohs
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Captivating images
Colonial India and the Making of Blind Memory
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Movie nights at the Imperial
Empire Cinema
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Higher Channels
"It starts with good intentions, then we all end up in a huge room sitting on golden chairs listening to boring speeches." This could be said of quite a few grand projects, but Nick Fraser is in fact...
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Peace is a dangerous business
Can Northern Ireland find peace? Chris Gibson, pro-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, and new chairman of the country's Civic Forum, shares his insights with Anne McHardy. As Bill Clinton...
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The future of history is a cyber map
Andrew Prescott explains how new technology is making a massive local history archive available to the public. Few commemorative projects have proved as long-lasting or monumental as the Victoria...
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A Victorian guide to checking out in style
Those Victorians really knew how to say goodbye, says James Stevens Curl, as he unearths Victorian attitudes to death in the run up to next month's centenary of Queen Victoria's demise. People are...