British history

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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.

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• SOURCE: Telegraph
  1/15/19
  

  Women used to grow whiskers for bizarre 19th century trend, historian discovers

  Whiskers were so popular in the 19th century that even women wanted to grow sideburns.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/10/19
  

  Why British Lawmakers Are Fighting Over a Bust of Oliver Cromwell

  Cromwell is alternately lauded as the “heroic military and political leader” who defended Parliament and vilified as a ruthless war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Catholics.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/11/19
  

  Historian Lucy Worsley on Royal Weddings, Queen Victoria and the 'Big Mistake' People Make About the Past

  And why she loves writing biographies. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11-18-18
  

  The idea of deep continuity in British history is absurd. We’ve always been in flux

  by David Edgerton

  Looking to our past for guidance is a big mistake – we’re no longer the nation of the Second World War or Suez.

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• 10-17-16
  

  Does British History Matter Anymore? Reflections on Brexit.

  by Dane Kennedy

  The likely result of Brexit is to make British history less relevant to the rest of the world.