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The Friday Digest 20/06/14

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This week's update features a ninety-nine-year-old biscuit, a 60-second guide to the birth of football and a day in the life of a community archaeologist.


Bletchley Park Hut 3


* The codebreakers' huts at Bletchley Park were structures that were only designed to last for a few years. So how have these ramshackle huts been given a new lease of life, seventy-five years on?


The Duchess of Cambridge "listens in on the enemy" during a visit to Bletchley Park


* This week, the Duchess of Cambridge reopened a codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, where her grandmother once worked during the Second World War as part of the restoration project. 


Tough: These biscuits from a major campaign in the First World War will go under the hammer next week. They are almost 100 years old

 

* Some First World War army ration biscuits that were brought home ninety-nine years ago by a Gallipoli survivor have been put up for auction. Soldier L. B Charles, who fought at Gallipoli and at the Dardanelles in Turkey, brought the biscuits home with him and the biscuits are still edible today although probably not all that appetising. 


Inside a WW1 medical tin, which focused on pain relief


* How the First World War changed emergency medicine.


The bar of soap unearthed in a Dunfermline museum archive.


* The old bar of soap that has helped to shed light on Fife's First World War history.


The Anzac Monument, Sydney. Photo: Getty Images


Busting the Anzac myth: has a national obsession hijacked the centenary commemorations of the First World War? 


An infantryman of the Worcester Regiment on the Western Front in 1916, wearing the 1908 Pattern Webbing Equipment, a Brodie helmet and puttees.


* Reading the First World War from the soldiers'-eye view to the grand sweep of history.


King John signs Magna Carta. Illustration from Cassell's History of England (1902)


* Sunday, 15 June marked the 799th anniversary of  Magna Carta and David Cameron took the opportunity to order that every school pupil be taught the ‘British values’ enshrined in Magna Carta. But the values of the charter, especially the idea of freedom under the law, cannot be claimed as a solely British value. 


The people confront the king in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, 'when ordinary folk rose in rebellion at a poll tax. Women such as Johanna Ferrour played a key role.' Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis


* The government's idea of a unified British history has also caused criticism, with people claiming that it is meaningless because 'our history is the struggle of many different Britains, each with their own conflicting sets of values'. Do you agree? 

 

The Harrow football team in the 1860s – Getty Images

 

* Football fans around the world have been looking to Brazil for the World Cup but for those less familiar with 'the beautiful game', here's a 60-second guide to the birth of football as we know it


George Raynor: the greatest coach England never had


* Despite being the most successful national coach in the history of football – an accolade bestowed by the Guinness Book of Records – George Raynor is one of the least well known within Great Britain but is Raynor the greatest coach that England never had? 

 

Man in Apron


Gendered images? A history of working-class marriage

 

Richard III tomb (c) Van Heynigen and Haward

 

The design of the tomb that King Richard III will be reburied in at Leicester Cathedral has been unveiled. It has gone through a number of changes but the cathedral said it was 'deeply respectful.'


Annie in a hole, or to be more specific a Norman cess pit at Lyminge (Image property of Annie Partridge)


* Historical Honey share a day in the life of Annie Partridge, a community archaeologist working for Canterbury Archaeological Trust

 

University of Sheffield returns 300-year-old tapestry looted by Nazis


* A 300-year-old tapestry, which has hung in the University of Sheffield for half a century, has been returned to the Chateau de Versainville in Normandy after revelations it had been looted by the Nazis.


Boy with sweets

 


  Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?


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