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How the British Empire blighted Britain, and more British politics

The Significance of the Year 1984. The year should have been celebrated as the centenary of British democracy. Only in

Britain’s Purely Imperialist War Against Nazi Germany. Churchill was concerned about saving the British Empire. George Orwell wanted something much

The system gives you nested menus, and also extra lines in the top menu. So split out some of the

Why the Left lost the Spanish Civil War. Mostly concerned with the popular view that credits George Orwell and POUM

Why Churchill Admired Mussolini. The matters left out by most of his biographers. How Churchill was Close to Fascism. He

Arkwright and the rise of the factory system. It has no single beginning, but Richard Arkwright was a major contributor

The British Empire and the Fifty Years War. A series of wars including the two World Wars were mostly a

Nation States were NOT invented by the Peace of Westphalia, which merely left Germany in a fragmented state. Nation states

A new section about Tolkien, including the films and his influence on Ursula Le Guin. How the back-story to her

Added some more articles to both History and Politics sections. Including the Ming Sea Voyages, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy