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On 4 October 1936, fascists and anti-fascists clashed in London's East End, when Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts marched through ...

On 21 April 1968, Conservative MP Enoch Powell was removed as shadow defence secretary by party leader Edward Heath after making a now-infamous racially charged speech. Immigration into Britain from ...

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In the early 13th century, Wanyan Yongji, mighty emperor of the Jin, sent a message to an upstart warlord who had had the temerity to invade his territory. “Our empire is as vast as the sea,” it read.

In 1994, stand-up Patrick Kielty was making his way in Belfast telling jokes about the Troubles. He thus played a small part in a year when a new mood north and south of the border helped reshape ...

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Considering that the Anglo-Saxon period ended nearly 1,000 years ago, there are a surprising number of Old English names still in use. The influence of the Roman Catholic Church grew considerably in ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

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The cannon were pumping shot into the hull of the vessel, sending lethal splinters of shrapnel through the air. A fire had broken out below the main deck and the crew was attempting to douse the ...