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‘Z’: War-by-Logo in Ukraine

December 30, 2022 Dr Alan Brown

Richard Stengel, writing in Time magazine in 2001, stated that “every conflict has its signature medium”, by which he meant that war and communications technology

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Sexual policy in the Third Reich

September 22, 2019 Dr Alan Brown

Contributed by Fiona Barker This excellent dissertation on a much-debated aspect of German history was awarded a First in 2009 by York St. John University

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The Free French air force in York

May 12, 2019 Dr Alan Brown

Contributed by Josh McKeown The dissertation French Flyers in York by Josh McKeown (available for free here) examines the history of two Free French heavy

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The sinking of the Iolaire

December 2, 2018 Dr Alan Brown

  Contributed by Mrs Fiona Baird At 1.50 a.m. on January 1st 1919, His Majesty’s Yacht Iolaire ran aground on the rocks known as the

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The British General Election of 1918

December 1, 2018 Dr Alan Brown

On Saturday December 14th 1918, voters in Britain took part in the first General Election since December 1910 and the first since the Great War

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