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19th century prison ships

What do these documents reveal about attitudes to crime and punishment?
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Cats and mice

What tactics were used by suffragettes, police and government?
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Civil Rights in America

Follow the progress of the struggle through the archives
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Commonwealth migration since 1945

What was the context and impact of migration in modern Britain?
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Fifties Britain

Never so good? Or too good to be true?
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Loyalty and dissent

How did Indian soldiers respond to the First World War?
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Richard II

Were the troubles facing England in the 1370s and 1380s due to Richard II’s age and inexperience?
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Seafarers’ Stories

How can we tell the stories of the Mirpuri, Bengali and Panjabi seafarers who travelled to Britain in the 1920s-30s?
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Selling the Victorians

Victorians for sale! Has advertising changed from Victorian times?
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Sixties Britain

A social and cultural revolution?
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The Holocaust

Key documents from The National Archives
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Twenties Britain (part one)

Decade of conflict, realignment and change?
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Twenties Britain (part two)

Decade of conflict, realignment and change?
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Victorian lives

How was life different in Victorian times?