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Tag: Debunking Myths

Posted on June 26, 2021July 1, 2021

Play For Today: Light (1979), The Shrewsbury Pickets and Victor Silvester

Posted on January 30, 2021May 30, 2021

Remembering Churchill’s Funeral and How They Had to Bribe London’s Dockworkers

Posted on January 21, 2021May 30, 2021

There’s More Than Meets the Pie to the Wiganers’ nickname

Posted on December 7, 2020March 6, 2021

Remembering the Taranto Mutiny, 1918

Posted on November 21, 2020December 11, 2020

Remembering the Bloody Sunday of 1920

Posted on November 11, 2020March 6, 2021

The Monocled Mutineer and the Establishment Myths of WWI

Posted on August 17, 2020March 6, 2021

Alan Sillitoe and What They Don’t Teach You About WWI at School

Posted on August 15, 2020February 24, 2021

Remembering Liverpool 1911 and the Villainous Churchill

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

A Mancunian Don: The Real Don Tonay

Posted on April 6, 2020May 8, 2020

Fact Meets Fiction: Jessie Eden & Peaky Blinders

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A blog for popular culture, social history and politics from Mark Cunliffe

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A blog for popular culture, social history and politics from Mark Cunliffe

Unthought of, though, somehow

A blog for popular culture, social history and politics from Mark Cunliffe

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A blog for popular culture, social history and politics from Mark Cunliffe

DREAMS ARE WHAT LE CINEMA IS FOR...

A blog for popular culture, social history and politics from Mark Cunliffe

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