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1971 Anglo-Italian Cup Winners – Blackpool Football Club

And they’re off!: What Sports Discourse Can Reveal About Postwar British Democracy

by Jamie Jenkins on March 14, 2022

Whether you are an avid football fan who never misses a game or, like myself you have yet to grasp the offside rule, sport is near impossible to avoid. A form of entertainment and escapism,

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Peter was here! Pope Francis and the ‘Authenticity’ of an Apostle’s Relics

Review: ‘Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century’ by John Higgs

Why I use modern LGBTQ+ terminology for the pre-modern past

The Unquiet Reporters: The American Press and the Franco-Viet Minh War, 1950-54

(Dead) kings and queens history: Richard III and the car park saga

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