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York Membery looks back to the crunch 1920s election which saw the party of Gladstone narrowly pushed into third place – a position from which it has never recovered. Published November 14 2008
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Published August 12 2008
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York Membery visits the capital of Bavaria and explores the historic heart of this twenty-first century metropolis – and its annual beer festival.
Published July 14 2008
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York Membery visits the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres where a new exhibition demonstrates how many countries and cultures were bound up in the First World War.
Published April 9 2008
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York Membery found much to savour when he paid a visit to the medieval town of Cortona for the Tuscan Sun Festival.
Published February 14 2008
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York Membery remembers John By, the brilliant British military engineer responsible for building the 175-year-old Rideau Canal.
Published December 11 2007
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Roy Strong tells York Membery why the humble English parish church is a perpetual source of fascination and refreshment. Published September 18 2007
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York Membery interviews the eminent historian Norman Stone about his life in Turkey and his latest book.
Published July 10 2007
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York Membery visits Canada’s westernmost city.
Published June 15 2007
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Jörg Friedrich’s horrifying account of the Allied bombing raids caused a stir on its first publication in Germany. Now it has been translated into English, and York Membery has canvassed some leading British historians for their views. Published December 12 2006
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York Membery sings the praises of the great wartime leader on the ninetieth anniversary of his coming to power.
Published November 7 2006
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York Membery recalls one of the great statesmen of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, whose career ended with a devastating stroke a hundred years ago this month.
Published June 20 2006
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York Membery looks at the advertisements that graced the first issue of History Today, and sees in them a reflection of the magazine's own past, and of a changing society. Published March 21 2001
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