Tag: Brexit
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Booze, Brexit and Britannia – Britain’s Gin Crazes
Written by Sophie Whitehead. The long and complex history of gin is often overlooked when discussing Britain’s ‘drink of choice’, a history which still has implications for our understanding of gin today.
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Book Review of The Europe Illusion: Britain, France, Germany and the Long History of European Integration (2019) by Stuart Sweeney.
Written by Inge Erdal. Stuart Sweeney takes a broad and ambitious approach to European integration in his 2019 work, but how does this fit into European historiography? And how does it call us to go further with European history?
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Review: Scotland and Europe – The Past Shaping the Future
Written by Felix Carpenter. A review of Professor Sir Tom Devine’s lecture ‘Scotland and Europe: The past shaping the future’, September 2016. Sir Tom Devine enters the stage, introduced as the foremost historian of modern Scottish history. Professor Devine is that unusual thing: an establishment figure who in 2014 supported Scottish independence, at the cost…
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