Alison Barnes
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Alison Barnes explains our special fondness for the Christmas legend. Published November 13 2007
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Alison Barnes sets the record straight on who was really responsible for introducing this popular custom to Britain. Published November 7 2006
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Alison Barnes reveals a new discovery about the Eddystone lighthouse: the first of its kind to be built on rocks in the sea.
Published August 17 2005
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The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England. |
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Richard Cavendish describes the massacre of the 'slave hounds' at the settlement of Pottawatomie Creek on May 24th, 1856.

















