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Title | Date published | ||
Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden | 2018-10-09 | ||
Reform of the House of Lords | 2018-10-08 | ||
Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing | 2018-10-05 | ||
The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary | 2018-10-04 | ||
The Invention of Artificial Skin | 2018-10-03 | ||
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil | 2018-10-02 | ||
Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine | 2018-10-01 | ||
The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark | 2018-09-28 | ||
Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War | 2018-09-27 | ||
The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine | 2018-09-26 | ||
Isadora Duncan - Dance Pioneer | 2018-09-25 | ||
The South African Army In Lesotho | 2018-09-24 | ||
Brazil's Nuclear Accident | 2018-09-21 | ||
The Arnhem Parachute Drop | 2018-09-20 | ||
The Battle of Algiers | 2018-09-20 | ||
The Cuban Five | 2018-09-18 | ||
The Fifteen Guinea Special | 2018-09-17 | ||
The Truth About Crop Circles | 2018-09-14 | ||
How I Survived a Fire on a Plane | 2018-09-13 | ||
The Killing of Steve Biko | 2018-09-12 |