British history

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  

  Why the queen said yes to Boris Johnson’s request to suspend parliament

  by Laura Beers

  So why isn’t the Queen taking more criticism for giving Johnson what he wanted? One answer is that she had no choice.

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• 9/8/19
  

  Sir Ian Kershaw on His Latest Book, Brexit, and the Future of Europe

  by David O’Connor

  "The EU has come a long way and, as Brexit shows, the networks built up over previous decades are extremely complex."

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• 9/8/19
  

  What We Can Learn About Surviving Frauds Like Trump from Titus Oates

  by David P. Barash

  The true story of Titus Oates, although horrifying and downright infuriating, should give us hope that the US, too, can recover from You Know Who, just as England did from Titus Oates. 

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• 8/18/19
  

  Book Review: Jeremy Black's Imperial Legacies

  by Jeff Roquen

  While Black lapses into a biased apologia and generalizes at the expense of factual evidence, Imperial Legacies, on the whole, delivers a long overdue re-contextualization of the British Empire.

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• 7/28/19
  

  History is a Verb, Something You Do: An Interview with Mark Doyle

  by Erik Moshe

  “History can help us understand the structural forces that foster suspicion, prejudice, resentment, and violence, and once we understand those forces we can begin to make better choices not just about how we live our own lives, but how we order our societies.”

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/15/2019
  

  Alan Turing, Computing Genius And WWII Hero, To Be On U.K.'s New 50-Pound Note

  It will include a quote from Turing: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/1/19
  

  The Search for a Brexit-Era Margaret Thatcher

  Forty years after Margaret Thatcher’s era-defining election victory in 1979, Britain once again appears divided and ungovernable, with a decision to make.

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• SOURCE: The Independent
  6/30/2019
  

  The Undocumented History of Female Yoga Teachers in Britain

  Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri helped popularise yoga in the UK, but they kept their teachings unwritten, leaving their significance largely forgotten

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• SOURCE: Daily Mail
  6/23/2019
  

  Leading historians and academics to launch five-year project to chronicle the UK's history dating back to 1603

  In 2023, it will be brought together in a single-volume book, Britain: The Thread of History 1603-2016, published by Bantam Press.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/22/2019
  

  U.K. Tribute to ‘Windrush’ Generation Draws Criticism

  Prime Minister Theresa May’s tribute video drew a backlash, with critics reminding the public of Mrs. May’s legacy before she became prime minister.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  6/13/2019
  

  Historian Alison Weir's New Novel Raises Controversial Theory: Henry VIII Divorced Anne of Cleves Because She’d Already Given Birth

  Weir acknowledges the claim, which pulls on previously unexplored evidence, is “inconclusive and speculative” but says it might make readers think.

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• 5/26/19
  

  On Toad-Eating, Tyranny, and Trump

  by Frank Palmeri

  What a writer in 19th-century England can teach us about Republicans, the press, and Trump. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  Accessed 3/26/19
  

  Margaret MacMillan, History Professor Emeritus at Oxford University, Gives Warnings from history for Brexit Britain

  She warned that after Brexit, England could go back to the way it was in the 15th Century.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/19
  

  Women With Axes: Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’

  Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.

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• 3/24/19
  

  An American Socialite and the Biggest British Constitutional Crisis Since Henry VIII's Divorce

  by Anna Pasternak

  Wallis Simpson has become a caricature of villainous womanhood. This Women’s History Month, let's revisit and uncover her real history. 

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• 2/11/19
  

  The British, with Guitars and Drums, Invade America in 1963

  by Bruce Chadwick

  As the song goes, rock and roll is here to stay.

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• 1/29/19
  

  Are Your Religious Beliefs and Conscience Worth Your Life?

  by Bruce Chadwick

  A review of A Man for All Seasons. 

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• 2/10/19
  

  Book Review: Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018)

  by Jeff Roquen

  Although more than one thousand books have been written on his life, the recently-published Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018) by Andrew Roberts merits consideration as the newly definitive one-volume biography of its subject.

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• 1/27/19
  

  The Refugee Camps of Twentieth-Century Britain—Historian Jordanna Bailkin Discusses Her Groundbreaking New Book "Unsettled"

  by Robin Lindley

  The policies giving rise to these refugee camps were critical in shaping today’s multicultural Britain and also served as antecedents to the treatment of immigrants and refugees now.

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• SOURCE: Guardian
  1/17/19
  

  Was Eric Hobsbawm a dangerous Communist?

  He was branded a Stalinist, and was spied on for decades by MI5, but was the famous historian a hardliner and renegade? His private papers tell a different story.