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Reconciling Britain’s agricultural trade policy initiatives with world trade rules: 1960–1975

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Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69

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Travelling memories, the afterlife of feelings, and associative diffraction in oral histories of Northern Irish migrants to Britain during the Troubles

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The brace of the Cabinet: the legacy of Clement Attlee as deputy prime minister

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British Culture after Empire: race, decolonisation and migration since 1945

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Britain’s contested history: lessons for patriots

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‘Rethinking camaraderie as emotional practices: deindustrialisation and deskilling in South Yorkshire coalfields, 1980s-2000s’

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Mass observers making meaning: religion, spirituality and atheism in late 20th-century Britain

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