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Day-trip to disaster: the Herald of Free Enterprise and the Zeebrugge disaster
Twenty-eight years have passed since a shocking maritime disaster claimed the lives of more Britons than in any other single event since the Second World War. Many people think that they have not...
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What happened to the German POWs in Britain after the Second World War?
In 1945, when the war in Europe came to a close, 150,000 German prisoners were already being held behind barbed wire in prisoner of war (POW) camps in Britain. Most had arrived within the previous...
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New Year's resolutions
January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god who looks backwards into the old year and forwards into the new so it is fitting that the majority of people use the dawning of a new year as both...
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12 top tips to keep you motivated
Some of the biggest challenges that crop up when making lifestyle changes, however big or small, are related to motivation (or the lack thereof!) and maintaining your momentum can be one of the most...
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Jazz and Dark Briggate Blues
Jazz. To some it’s beautiful, to others it’s a dirty word. For Dan Markham, the main character in Dark Briggate Blues, it’s the staff of life. He discovered the music in the late 1940s, thanks to an...
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The Friday Digest 09/01/15
Happy new year from The History Press! This week's update features the beautiful and mysterious Lady of Elche, the 'unkillable soldier' who fought in three major conflicts and some 2015 digital...
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Profiles of Waterloo: Marshal Michel Ney (1769–1815)
Charismatic, courageous, temperamental, passionate, quick-tempered, brilliant and brave beyond question, Ney was so determined to place himself in the thick of battle at Waterloo that he denied the...
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Profiles of Waterloo: Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Aggressive, excessively driven, hard-drinking and affable, Blücher displayed more the traits of an NCO than of an officer – much less a field marshal. Yet he was the right man for the job: Prussia...
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Profiles of Waterloo: typical British and French soldiers
A typical British soldier British soldiers tended to hail from the lowest social strata, though the popular image of recruits taking the king’s shilling as an alternative to prison does not entirely...
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Profiles of Waterloo: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
The most successful of the many commanders who fought the French over the course of a generation, he was the fourth son of the Earl of Mornington, a minor member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy....
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Profiles of Waterloo: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1769–1821)
Few military or political figures have stamped their impression so strongly on an epoch than Napoleon, who rose from fairly humble origins on Corsica to the throne of France at the age of...
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The Friday Digest 27/02/15
This week's update features Harry Potter cocktails, nineteenth-century medical fraudsters and the rise and fall of Diana Mitford. * Six reasons why France should salute the Iron Duke. * Hitler's Mein...
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Special Force: Legacy of the Chindits
In February 2015 the UK Ministry of Defence announced that 77 Brigade is to be reformed. This new unit will specialise in cyber warfare, social media and other unconventional tools in conflict...
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The Friday Digest 06/03/15
This week's update features unusual libraries, a brief history of pin-ups and the Napoleonic Dad's Army. * Why the anniversary of Napoleon's escape from Elba is a bigger deal than Waterloo. *...
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Profiles of Waterloo: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
The most successful of the many commanders who fought the French over the course of a generation, he was the fourth son of the Earl of Mornington, a minor member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy....
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100 years ago: women’s lives in wartime
History is important for women, a sense of the: limitations, opportunities, challenges and expectations of women in the past gives women a sense of who they are now. One hundred years ago women were...
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Emily Hobhouse: pacifist and patriot
On 4 August 1914, a surge of patriotic fervour swept the nation, Germany was marching through Belgium: young men rushed into war. But not everyone was happy. Emily Hobhouse believed in her country....
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The VC hero who came back from the dead
'Act as soon as I think. Sometimes sorry after, sometimes not… Impulsive. Born in me. Been like it all my life.' So said Harry Daniels when speaking about a colourful and courageous army career that...
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Neuve Chapelle 1915 – The British Expeditionary Force’s first offensive
The operation at Neuve Chapelle in the Artois region of northern France during 10 to 12 March 1915 was significant because it was the first planned offensive strike upon a German trench system on the...
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Day-trip to disaster: the Herald of Free Enterprise and the Zeebrugge disaster
Twenty-eight years have passed since a shocking maritime disaster claimed the lives of more Britons than in any other single event since the Second World War. Many people think that they have not...
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