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Learning from History? The 1975 Referendum on Europe

Britain held her first national referendum in 1975 - on...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1956, Egypt’s President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company...

Though history tends to focus on the white abolitionists, the...

What began the process of Abolition? When did this minority...