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A Play Within A Play: Behind the Phrase 'House of Cards'

When referring to the play within the play ‘The Real...

Leaving the ERM, 1992

In October 1990, in the last days of her premiership...

The Queen at 90

The sixty four years of the Queen's reign - the...

Theatre and Language: Samuel Beckett, 'Waiting for Godot'

Beckett's Waiting for Godot has been interpreted in myriad ways...

Waiting for Godot at Tour De France

Britain's Damaged Rivers

From the nineteenth century onwards, growth in the UK's towns...

Set Square and Stethoscope: The Architecture of London's Medical Profession

In the Middle Ages, medicine was largely about a good...

The Falklands War, 1982

In 1982, Argentina, which had long claimed the Falklands, invaded...

"Tit for Tat, you Buggers!": The Falklanders' response to Argentina's Invasion of South Georgia

On 19th March 1982 Argentina claimed the British-owned Islands of...

A British Colony in the Midlands...

In 1950 a survey asked the UK "Can you name...