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  • Virtual Branch Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

    22nd March 2022

    In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.  Marcus Collins...

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  • The last days of Lord Londonderry

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  • Civilian expertise in war

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  • Real Lives: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

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  • Out and About in Wheathampstead

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  • My Favourite History Place: Swarkestone Bridge

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  • The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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  • History Abridged: Libraries

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  • Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns

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  • Virtual Branch Film: What a strange place to be buried

    10th January 2022

    What a strange place to be buried: unique burial locations in London c. 1600-1800 Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on...

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