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Project Paine: Richard Attenborough’s film that never was

The publication of a classic statement of democratic rights, Common Sense (1776), written by Thomas Paine, has been pointed to recently by American academics who are fearful about their country slipping further and further into authoritarianism under ‘King’ Donald Trump. Such scholars think it is time to ‘rediscover’ some of the best texts in the history of democracy...


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Thinking about Think-Tanks: Reflections on the ‘battle of ideas’ in 1980s Britain

Policy research organizations have been very much in the news. There has been much talk in recent months about the role and influence of the ‘Heritage Foundation’ in the United States, and the extent to which it has been feeding ‘ideas’ into Donald Trump’s second presidency. The Foundation, created back in 1973, is a good example of a ‘think-tank’: it was an influence on Rona...


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Looking Back on The Great War’s Christmas Truce of 1914: not unique?

Speaking in 1963 for a BBC series on the Great War, the late author Henry Williamson, whose best-known work probably remains Tarka the Otter, gave some fascinating details about what he witnessed in December, 1914, when he was serving as a private in the British Army on the Western Front.

Williamson recalled that, starting...


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The Dean of Doom: The gloomy outlook of William Ralph Inge

There has been some interesting coverage on social media in recent times of the views of William Ralph Inge (1860-1954), who was known as the ‘Gloomy Dean’ or the ‘Gloomy Philosopher’, and was Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in London for 23 years.


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Kingston’s D-Day secret: The cottage used by ‘Ike’ Eisenhower

When the History Dept at Kingston University put on a special talk back in 2018 by three very research-active staff members to help commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War, it proved to be one of the best-attended events of the year in our ‘Cultural Histories at Kingston’ talks programme.

Peoples’ fascination with the history of war in all its aspect...


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