As the recession squeezes profits, Chris Bowlby asks Dr Sonia Ashmore how Britain’s flagship department stores have risen to the challenges of the past 150 years
Government provides social care through the welfare state, but now politicians want charities involved. Will it work? Chris Bowlby finds out more from Dr Alex Mold
In the latest of our History & Policy series, James Whitfield explains how the police can learn lessons from mistakes of the past to help prevent their powers of stop and search alienating sections of the community in the future
In the first of a new series in partnership with History & Policy, we ask historians to teach us the lessons of the past. Dr Abigail Wills explains what history tells us about antisocial youth in Britain
Thomas Cromwell: man of principle or mindless thug? Diarmaid MacCulloch on BBC2 now
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Was Thomas Cromwell a modern politician? Interesting blog http://t.co/dvk8Zjz19h
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@KimSea2shore It's blowing a gale in Bristol, Kim!
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Homemade banana loaf and an afternoon working on our July issue. It must be #Friday. What has your day looked like? http://t.co/fUwpPOb0Cz
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Edward VIII, Mexico cave art, Richard III and The Beatles all feature in this week's look at history in the headlines http://t.co/TRD77xHcTN
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