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Why DracuLand still stokes British anxieties

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 17 May 2013 by delclem

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Past and present attitudes to Romanian and Bulgarian immigration in the UK
>full text & illustration (c) BBC HISTORY, 2013

Wittgenstein in Ireland

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 21 October 2012 by delclem


The late Austrian British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein spent the
last years of his life partly in Ireland.  >chronicle   >article

Nazi merchandising?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 31 August 2012 by delclem

A MEN’S clothes store in India is being asked to change its name after the chosen ‘Hitler’ upsets the local community.”

Summer canard, naïveté or evil business – taking the vile merchandising & ‘branding’ of Nazi history a step further…?

And what is the Gandhi-Tshirt suupposed to mean?

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Titanic Centenary

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 15 April 2012 by delclem

100 years ago, the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank.

> Online database of documents