Events Database

67 historical macro events · 2010–today

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DateEvent
Mar 8, 11Unlike Thatcher, Cameron is preserving awkward history
Mar 6, 11Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia by Richard Francis – review
Feb 25, 11Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online
Feb 21, 11Brighton Rock tours help university engage with local people
Feb 21, 11England then and now: fond of dogs, tea and fancy foreign food
Feb 20, 11The Wigan of George Orwell – in pictures
Feb 20, 11The road to Wigan Pier, 75 years on
Feb 6, 11Dorothy Thompson obituary
Feb 6, 11London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 by Barry Miles – review
Jan 30, 11Why the West Rules – For Now by Ian Morris – review
Dec 26, 10Philip French: my life as a stammerer
Dec 13, 10Britain 'more Thatcherite now than in the 80s' says survey
Nov 7, 10The vibrator was a Victorian gift to women, new film Hysteria reveals
Nov 3, 10The sociologist influencing Labour's new generation
Oct 24, 10Jim Loach: 'I directed Coronation Street. For my gran, dad could never top that!'
Oct 23, 10My hero William Beveridge
Oct 13, 10Liverpool Road
Sep 27, 10Moshe Lewin obituary
Sep 26, 10State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
Sep 19, 10Colin Firth and star-studded cast deliver a British history lesson
Aug 31, 10How the Blitz created the welfare state
Aug 29, 10When London Was Capital of America by Julie Flavell
Aug 29, 10London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout
Aug 22, 10Talkin' 'bout my generation
Aug 22, 10The baby boomers and the price of personal freedom
Aug 14, 10TV review: The Great British Home Movie Roadshow
Jul 29, 10The lasting power of oral traditions
Jul 18, 10Britons renew their love of seaside resorts as cost of holidays abroad soars
Jul 5, 10Family history boom fuelled by internet and TV
Jun 27, 10London Lives, an online archive, has brought 18th century Britain to life
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