Series exploring contemporary history
Jolyon Jenkins recalls the university sit-ins of 1970, when Liverpool's students flew the red flag from the Senate House and Keele's tried to levitate the vice-chancellor's house.
DetailsIn the mid 1990s companies sprung up offering huge returns on ostrich farming. It seemed too good to be true -and it was. Why did so many apparently intelligent people fall for it?
DetailsChris Ledgard recalls the first papal tour of Britain. It was a turning point for British Catholics but, as the Falklands crisis deepened, many thought it would be called off.
DetailsChris Ledgard investigates the story behind the Hull North by-election of 1966. Why did Harold Wilson's government choose that moment to promise a bridge over the River Humber?
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