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The Wall behind the Reichstag, (East) Berlin, Germany (1989/312)

Opinion: Skinnydipping, spies and shortages: Deutschland 83 brilliantly evokes life in East Germany

21 Jan 2016

Henning Grunwald (Faculty of History) discusses how accurate the representation of life in Cold War era East Germany is in Channel 4 drama...

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A Sellotaped page from the speech that never was. Homepage image: Miner's strike, 1984 by Nick Sarebi (CC: Att)

The speech that never was – Thatcher papers for 1984 open to the public

03 Oct 2014

Papers opened to the public today reveal how the Brighton bombing stopped Margaret Thatcher from widening her infamous ‘enemy within’ rhetoric to...

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