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The Friday Digest 23/05/14
This week's update features 'Jurassic Mary', a First World War love story and fifty years of Nutella. * Verdun's storm of shellfire that obliterated 300,000 men – 'an inferno that marked the birth...
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A circus of my own
When I see a show I don’t want to just be amused or moved – I want to cry. I think that a good circus should make you cry. Furthermore, a good circus, a circus that is doing its job, should somehow...
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The Swinging Sixties
If you were not a teenager in the 60s, then the chances are that they did not swing too much for you. However, the working class, (and Northerners!) started to have a voice on screen and in...
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A trip to the Crime Museum
If there’s one item in the Crime (formerly Black) Museum that people remember, it’s the cooker. However, for the sake of less hardy souls I’ll pass over this item and say that the first surprising...
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Canada’s worst maritime disaster: RMS Empress of Ireland
It was all over in fourteen terrible minutes. By the time RMS Empress of Ireland, pride of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Atlantic fleet, settled to the bottom of the St Lawrence River on 29 May 1914,...
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Simon Wenham at WH Smith, Cornmarket on 21/06/14
Simon Wenham will be at WH Smith, Cornmarket on Saturday 21st June from 11am signing copies of his new book, Pleasure Boating on the Thames: A History of Salter Bros, 1858-Present Day. The River...
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The Friday Digest 30/05/14
This week's update features 'the loneliest boy in the world', some previously unseen photographs of the French Armoured Cavalry Branch, known as 'the hairy ones' in the First World War and how the...
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Cars we loved in the 1960s
Britain, the 1960s and cars are usually characterized by the Jaguar E-type at one end of the scale, and the Mini at the other. The affordable dream car and the economy runabout bringing new meaning to...
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Telling the true story of Emily Wilding Davison
Maureen Howes and Penni Blythe-Jones share their reactions to seeing the finished copy of Emily Wilding Davison: A Suffragette's Family Album for the first time, upon its release. Maureen: I spent 16...
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Quizzes, trivia and history
A good quiz is a very effective way of stamping information on the brain. If you know the answer, you feel justifiably proud of yourself; if you’re unsure but manage to guess correctly there’s the...
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Disability and masculinity in the First World War
It may feel a bit early to start talking about the long-term effects of the First World War on British society, but that was the subject of a recent edition of the BBC’s The Big Questions. In fact,...
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The History Press World Cup 2014 Competition
With the World Cup fast approaching, kick off in just under a week’s time, we thought we would give our loyal fans the chance to win some fab goodies to celebrate the greatest sporting event in the...
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CSM Stanley Hollis VC: D-Day Hero
Middlesbrough-born Stanley Hollis, the only man to win a VC on D-day, should have been the most famous soldier of World War Two – but his natural modesty got in the way! The superb soldier and leader...
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The Friday Digest 06/06/14
This week's update features D-Day, the 'Bride of the Desert' and 107 reasons to love Foyles of Charing Cross Road. * Today marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy in...
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The final days of Henry VIII
As the power-brokers of the next reign span their webs and hovered solicitously in the background, Henry VIII’s ailing body had deteriorated steadily throughout January 1547. Some thirty-eight years...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Parisi: Britons and Romans in Eastern Yorkshire
According to the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, the Parisi tribe occupied the area of the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire during the Roman period. Over the last few decades our understanding of...
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Highway 61 – Crossroads on the Blues Highway
For blues pilgrims, driving across the Hernando De Soto Bridge over the Mississippi River, catching the first site of Memphis, Tennessee marks the half-way point on a journey from Chicago, the 'Blues...
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Stephen Haddelsey at Waterstones Trafalgar Square on 16/06/14
Stephen Haddelsey will be at Waterstones Trafalgar Square on Monday 16th June from 7-9pm launching his new book, Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46. In...
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Giffords Circus at Waterperry Gardens, Wheatley on 20/06/14
Giffords Circus will be at Waterperry Gardens, Wheatly (Oxfordshire) on Friday 20th June signing copies their new book, Giffords Circus: the First Ten Years. Each summer a small and glamorous part...
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Biff Raven-Hill at Waterstones, Kettering on 26/06/14
Biff Raven-Hill will be at Waterstones, Kettering on Saturday 26th June signing copies of her book, Wartime Housewife: A No-Nonsense Handbook for Modern Families. The Wartime Housewife will bring...
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