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The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London EC2

Jewish teenager who volunteered for the Dutch resistance ...

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

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John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...

The term ‘Merseyside’ was coined around the end of the 19th century. In the county reorganisation of 1974 it became the official name for the area that encompassed the boroughs of Birkenhead, Bootle,