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19 Oct 2014:
This book offers a different take on genealogy: part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part social history, writes Ben Highmore
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17 Oct 2014: Michael Hogan: The BBC Genome Project, an online catalogue of broadcasts dating back to 1923, is a televisual Tardis to thrill nostalgists
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12 Oct 2014:
Lists sound prosaic, but what they reveal about their authors’ everyday lives is intriguing, writes Ben East
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1 Oct 2014: Len McCluskey: Slashing funds for the People’s History Museum in Manchester is a malicious, politically motivated attack on the labour movement
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13 Sep 2014: It is 700 years since William Wallace was executed in the English capital, but his memorial there can still inspire the nationalist cause
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3 Sep 2014:
Letters: One wonders if Nato leaders will visit the graves of those who died for the democratic principles they claim to be the guardians of
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24 Aug 2014: Simon Garfield makes a convincing case for why letter-writing still matters in the digital age, writes Anita Sethi
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3 Aug 2014:
Lucy Lethbridge enjoys a revealing, if uneven, history of how retail transformed women's working lives
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23 Jul 2014:
Boroughs seeking to build more homes of their own are a reminder of what the capital has lost and needs to regain
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23 Jul 2014: Paul Reid: The launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennia, not decades
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18 Jul 2014: Historian who revolutionised the study of German society and became one of the country's leading public intellectuals
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10 Jul 2014:
After a £40m revamp and the acquisition of a range of new exhibits, the IWM is looking to the future as well as the past, writes Stephen Moss
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27 Jun 2014:
Can the economic downturn be laid at the foot of the baby boom generation, and will it ever end? PJ O'Rourke and Tom Clark balance the books
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3 Jun 2014: In 1972 John Barker was one of four Angry Brigade members sentenced to 10 years in prison for a series of bombings. Though his newly published novel is no political tract, there's still plenty to feel outraged about
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28 May 2014:
National Portrait Gallery exhibition takes broad look at Morris legacy, covering 100 years from suffragettes to 60s design
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