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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 19 September cbso.co.uk From pop-ups in the Bullring and New Street Station to five premieres and a series aimed at rethinking the conc

When I think about challenging family history problems – those knotty “brick walls” that have defied our attempts to solve them for months or perhaps years – I think about two basic divisions of genea

Were the seeds of Civil War already written into the American Constitution?

As anyone who reads these pages knows, history has become political – especially discussions about our imperial past. So The Truth About Empire (Hurst), a collection of essays edited by Alan Lester, i