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Escaping the train to Auschwitz
On 19 April 1943, a train carrying 1,631 Jews set off from a Nazi detention camp in Belgium for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. But resistance fighters stopped the train. One boy who jumped to freedom that night retains vivid memories, 70 years later.
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Remembering Dad: Eric Hobsbawm, historian
Julia Hobsbawm on the daunting intellect and tireless curiosity of her father Eric Hobsbawm, the historian and champion of the left who died last year
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His dark charisma
Comment on the extraordinary fact that Hitler, a most ordinary man in many ways, appealed to so many intelligent people at a particular time.....
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Victorian mugshots reveal nineteenth century interest in criminal anthropology
Prisoners as young as 12 were sent to Newcastle City Gaol for stealing clothes, food and metal. Inmates of all ages, from ragamuffin children to the elderly and infirm, can be seen peering out of sepia images taken at Newcastle City Gaol and House of Correction Collection between December 1871 and December 1873.
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A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences: Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research, by Christian Fleck
LSE blog, review by Daniel Sage
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Franz Fanon; Fifty Years On
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Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'
Interview with Peter Ackroyd, historian of London and England, about the recent riots
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The Exile Nation project
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An ASBO in 14th century Britain
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How to be a retronaut
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Structures and Transformations in Modern British History: Review of Feldman and Lawrence
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Reviews in History
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Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online
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Manas: History and Politics
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IPCC: Deaths in Custody study
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TruTV
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Crime Report Maps UK
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