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Playing the Blame Game: Divorce Then and Now
By Georgia Oman (@Georgia_Oman) When Parliament was suspended this September, several bills making their way through the Commons and Lords were dropped. Although three pieces of legislation were carried over to the next session, the remainder fell into a legal limbo, with their only hope of resurrection being that the government would choose to re-introduce them…
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Nazi doublethink: Race and nation in Germany’s borderlands
By Luisa Hulsrøj “The national state . . . must set race in the center of all life,” Hitler declared in Mein Kampf, exemplifying his movement’s exaltation not only of the nation but also of its ostensible basis in race. This pernicious ideology encountered challenges, recent scholarship has found, when it met with populations in…
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1. Oriel College Postcard
by Lucy Inskip (@lucyskippin) Rather than finding the most outlandish historical object from a heritage site or online collection, I looked to my own bookshelf for an interesting piece of history. I bought this vintage Oxford coloured postcard print from Antiques on High whilst reading History at Oriel College, University of Oxford (2016-2019). It is from…
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Review: The Museum of the American Revolution
By Evelyn Strope (@emstrope) Location: 3rd & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Independence National Historical Park Ticket Prices: $18 Student, $21 Adult Opening Hours: Mon–Sun, 10am–5pm www.amrevmuseum.org; @AmRevMuseum While undertaking archival research in Philadelphia this summer, I finally had the chance to visit the Museum of the American Revolution (MAR), situated at the heart of…
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5. The Rogue’s Gallery
By Walker Schneider (@WalkerSchneider) Today crime-fighting relies on massive criminal databases. In the United States, this practice can be traced back to Gilded Age New York City and the Rogues’ Gallery, the great-grandfather of modern criminal databases. Deep within the New York City Police Department’s headquarters on Mulberry Street, the Rogues’ Gallery was a hulking…
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