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The miners' lockout of 1926 was once a pivotal second in British twentieth-century historical past. commencing with the heady days of the final strike, it persevered for seven months and affected 1000000 miners. In County Durham, the place virtually 3 in each ten grownup males labored within the coal undefined, its impression was once profound.

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The pageant of england in 1951 reworked the way in which humans observed their war-ravaged country. Giving Britons an intimate adventure of up to date layout and glossy construction, it helped them settle for a panorama lower than reconstruction, and taken wish of a higher international to come back. The competition of england: A Land and Its humans travels past the Festival’s staggering centrepiece at London’s South financial institution, to occasions held the size and breadth of the 4 countries, to which countless numbers of the country’s maximum architects, artists and architects contributed.

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In 1918, the British Expeditionary strength (BEF) performed a severe function in defeating the German military and therefore profitable the 1st international conflict. This 'Hundred Days' crusade (August to November 1918) was once the best sequence of land victories in British army background. 1918 additionally observed the construction of the Royal Air strength, the world's first autonomous air provider, from the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air provider.

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We are living in a time of significant social, political and financial trouble that many date to the cave in of the worldwide banking method in 2008. Many are discovering it tough to contextualise the hardships that experience taken position within the years following on from these occasions. it really is tough to discover the solutions in our current media panorama, or in a political and highbrow weather that keeps to laud capitalism because the profitable economy popping out of either international conflict II and the top of the chilly struggle, which has develop into during the last century synonymous with democracy itself.