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The sacking of a young worker on 20 August 1976 escalated into a defining industrial conflict of the late 1970s.

A century of struggle over the meaning of ‘Jerusalem’. 

Before the secret ballot, voting in Britain was a theatrical, violent and public affair. The Act that made democracy private turned 150 this year.

The ‘emigration’ of thousands of poor London children in the 19th century was seen by its organisers as an act of Christian deliverance, but the experience of the young people sent to Canada tells a different story. 

Britain has been a high inequality, high poverty nation for most of the last 200 years. 

The Covid pandemic seems to have caused a birth dearth. Historically, how have countries responded to falling birthrates?

The First World War threw widows and their brothers-in-law together, but their marriages were considered incestuous. 

Solitude was treated with suspicion in the Middle Ages. For most people it has only been a possibility in recent times.