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What is the legacy of the Empire Windrush for black Britishness today?
The Home Office threw away landing documents that are now vital to people trying to prove their right to stay in the UK.
R.C. Sherriff’s classic play focused on the officer class, but the recent film adaptation has given working-class soldiers a voice.
Women played and integral role in the year-long struggle – despite a culture that expected them to stay at home.
Without a clear full stop there can be no certainty that the unravelling of the British Empire has ended even now.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
The new TV show Britannia dramatises the second Roman invasion of Britain. It captures the core elements of the story (despite inaccuracies) but recent archaeological finds offer thrilling insights into this time.
We are so accustomed to hearing about American exceptionalism that British exceptionalism is rarely discussed.
Nine centuries after it was commissioned to celebrate the Norman Conquest, the famed tapestry is finally going to visit England.
We think of the Druids as being embedded in British culture from the mists of ancient times. But what we think we know about Druids is of surprisingly modern provenance.
After decades of diplomacy and development the two economies of Ireland are more integrated than they have been in a century.
At Ebbsfleet, in northeast Kent, archaeologists have finally uncovered the site where Julius Caesar’s fleet landed in 54BC.
Kingston-Upon-Hull is a city of contradictions, which is holding up a mirror to British society.
Black British history is too often overlooked, and its connections to the US even more so.
Australian universities are teaching ‘identity politics’ at the expense of Western history, according to an Institute of Public Affairs report. But unis make decisions based on student demand, not politics.
All men must die, so the young women have grown up to take control.
They are too well-behaved on Westeros – real-life queens often resorted to tears, temper tantrums and toilet humour.
It’s been 680 years since the last princess of Wales born to reigning monarchs in the country walked the earth.
Decriminalisation changed the way homosexuality and gay culture were portrayed on screen.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in British Politics, University of Liverpool
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Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Professor of History, The Open University
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University London
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Senior Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Political History, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in the Department of History, Durham University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
