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1 day ago · British War Medal. Victory Medal. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member of parliament and later founded and led the British ...
5 days ago · In 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland were merged to create the Kingdom of Great Britain, and in 1801, the Kingdom of Ireland joined to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The British monarch was the nominal head of the vast British Empire, which covered a quarter of the world's land area at its greatest extent in 1921.
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1 day ago · Mexico. The first Braceros arrive in Los Angeles, 1942. Mexico entered World War II in response to German attacks on Mexican ships. The Potrero del Llano, originally an Italian tanker, had been seized in port by the Mexican government in April 1941 and renamed in honor of a region in Veracruz.
May 14, 2024 · This regard, Stourton argues, is an inheritance from the war years during which the BBC emerged as a trusted friend at home and abroad. The BBC of 1939, Stourton allows, was neither ‘impartial’ nor ‘independent’ as those terms are now understood.
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May 20, 2024 · Getty. British Heritage readers appreciate and understand the much-cited “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain more than most good citizens of either federation. After all, British Heritage plays a critical role in keeping that relationship alive. As the voice of British travel, history, and contemporary culture ...
3 days ago · Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780719066139; 352pp.; Price: £75.00. The history of Britain during the two inter-war decades could be characterised by reference to a process by which, while the nation still clung to many of its pre-1914 imperial certainties ...
