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Ralph Houlbrooke traces back the distinctive roots of the modern family.

Tony Aldous on a Worcestershire town whose natural resources brought the Romans there.

'Politics didn't matter': the ordinary Germany often insulated himself from the tensions of the Third Reich by concentrating on its work and leisure benefits.

'Trappings of popery and rags of the beast'. Mince-pies, mummers, holly and church services all fell victim to a determined Puritan attempt to stamp out the celebration of Christmas under the Commonwealth.

The legacy of empire brought nearly half a million blacks and Asians to Britain in the fifties in search of a better life.

A Satanic conspiracy designed from the beginning to eliminate European Jewry? Or ad hoc responses aimed at replenishing Nazi zeal and producing convenient scapegoats? A fresh look at one of the most hideous episodes in world history.

The continuing struggle in Ireland, and the atrocities which it produces within Great Britain, are given full attention by the media.

Not all young Germans were enthusiasts for Hitler Youth ideas - and some actively opposed them.

'I have been ostracised by my native country.... I am boycotted by my adopted country'. During the two world wars Germans in Britain found themselves to be enemy aliens, victims of suspicion and prejudice in a country which had been their refuge from a hostile homeland.

It was not only the Jews who fled from Tsarist persecution in the late 19th century. Immigrants from Lithuania came to Scotland en route for the United States and many stayed.