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Mobilising British History

Mobilising British History Mobilising or Mobilizing British History depending on which side of the pond you are on? We are busy completing many enhancements over the next two weeks and in particular the art and science, (it is a fine balance of the two it seems) of optimising this web project for all the popular…

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Tower of London Poppies Pictures to Download

Honoured guests Tower of London Chelsea Pensioners and their Beefeater guide

Tower of London Poppies Pictures FREE to Download Good news on Hampshire History our sister project, some pictures we snapped have been loaded to our Facebook Page for HH and you can download them for free. Just shared because whilst a staggering 4 million people have got there, not everyone will be able to. Reasonable…

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About Us

Started this quest looking for better resources to take our own history projects forward, supplementing but not replacing our favourite family tree and research record systems, we couldnt find the right tools so we started researching and building some ourselves, here is how we hope to share the outcome of our labours, we aren’t historians and dont want to be, we are intrigued and fascinated aby the journey through history and the inspiring connections we have been finding…

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What is the point of history?

materials to work with: Churchill quotation cited in (David Cannadine’s inaugural lecture as Director of the Institute of Historical Research, 1999) ” ‘History’, Churchill observed, ‘with its flickering lamp, stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days.’…

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