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  • Virtual Branch Film: Why has Monarchy survived in Europe?

    29th April 2022

    In the lead-up to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Dr Bob Morris joined the HA Virtual Branch in March 2022 to consider why the monarchy has survived in Europe.  Dr R. M. (Bob) Morris is a Senior Honorary Research Associate at the Constitution Unit, University College London. He was formerly a...

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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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  • History Abridged: Libraries

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

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  • Out and About in Wheathampstead

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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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  • Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns

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  • My Favourite History Place: Swarkestone Bridge

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