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  • Virtual Branch Film: The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania (1772-1795)

    14th December 2021

    Karin Friedrich recently joined the Virtual Branch to discuss aspects of its complex history in her talk on the partitions of Poland, their repercussions for German-Polish relations and their legacy. Professor Friedrich is chair in Early Modern European History at the University of Aberdeen, co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, and...

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  • Virtual Branch Film: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War

    29th November 2021

    Historian Robert Sackville-West joined the HA Virtual Branch in November 2021 to talk about the topic of his book The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War. By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed...

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  • Cinderella dreams: young love in post-war Britain

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  • The secret diaries of William Wilberforce

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  • Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century

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  • The cultural biography of opium in China

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  • Petit’s impact on our understanding of Victorian life and culture

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  • A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley

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  • Real Lives: The Russian hermit of Cornwall’s caves

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  • Capturing public opinion during the Paris Commune of 1871

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