15 March 2016. Historian Asa Briggs died (aged 94). He was a leading specialist on the Victorian era, writing several seminal books on the subject and also an expert on cultural history in the 20th century writing a definitive 5-volume history of British broadcasting.
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More than a million who died at battle of Somme are remembered at Islandbridge commemoration
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From the diplomatic freeze between the EU and China, we now turn to another frosty topic - this time on our own streets.
Our reporter @SiofraMulqueen scoops into the world of ice cream vans — and finds 99 reasons to love summer. 🍦☀️@CarternNi
Le Monde. Une Histoire Familiale de l’Humanite out soon in September
It is always a special thing to be published in the language of Voltaire …
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Concorde G-BOAA, flying with a Spitfire over the White Cliffs of Dover on the 50th anniversary of Battle of Britain (1990). 📷 Adrian Meredith Collection.
"There’s no point now banging on about behaviour and behaviour tsars. You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel shit. It doesn’t work." Well said Anna Maxwell Martin.
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there has been no- one, no- one in the whole history of democratic politics who has so completely married together profound malevolence with jaw- dropping stupidity
@simonmontefiore Agreed - @robertservice00 is exceptional on Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky, as well as his surveys of the Cold War and 20th century Russia. Highly recommend.