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The fight for our battlefields

10 November 2018 By Tim Lynch

Ypres from Michelin guide

“Have you forgotten yet?” (Aftermath, Siegfried Sassoon) Even before the guns fell silent across the Western Front a century ago, staff at the Michelin Touring Office in London were busy preparing guidebooks for motorists intending to go see the trenches for themselves (see images above and below). By the early 1920s battlefield tourism had become big […]

Lady Constance Lytton: The Suffering Suffragette

5 February 2018 By Michelle Birkby

On the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, when some British women were given the right to vote, we take a look at some of the inspirational women who dedicated their lives to the fight for equality. First up, Michelle Birkby tells the story of suffragette, Lady Constance Lytton. Lady Constance Lytton was […]

The Georgian Experiment

18 September 2017 By Eric Lee

Author Eric Lee on his thirty year quest to publish a book about Georgia’s forgotten revolution. I was born in America at the height of the Cold War, during the McCarthy era, when the word “socialist” was a term of derision.  But I somehow managed to find myself on the Left (the Vietnam war may […]

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