20th Century

A collection of 78 Posts

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Prelude

Leah Broad introduces us to four women who changed the musical world

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Testimonies: 93, 96, and 130

Will Ashon on how we give shape to our lives, find meaning in the chaos, acknowledge the fragility of our existence

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The Endeavour

Tom Hindle's debut mystery is set on a ship full of suspects, with two detectives. And one killer

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Acts of Love and War

A nation torn apart by war. One woman steps into the crossfire

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I am an Irishman

Ronan McGreevy on the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP in 1922, triggering the Irish Civil War

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Life and Death on the Eastern Front

Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Stewart Spring share rare colour photographs from the Second World War

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The Aberfan Disaster

Sam Knight on the London piano teacher who foretold one of Wales' most horrific industrial disasters

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The Fact of Who I Was

Drawing on the Secret Intelligence Files on Edith Tudor-Hart, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel – by the granddaughter of Kim Philby – tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man

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My Name, if You Must Know, is Adele

Sophie Haydock's electrifying historical debut about four muses and the artist who shocked Vienna

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The Village of the Damned

Matthew Green revisits the Welsh village of Capel Celyn, and how it ended up beneath 68 million tonnes of water

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Out-of-Towners

John Grindrod investigates the rise of the 'Tescobethan Sheds'

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Eavesdropping on the Enemy

Dr Helen Fry on the Man Who Saved MI6 during World War 1