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The Coming of the Railway – A Conversation with David Gwyn
The historian explains to Michael Mccomb how railways evolved from wooden structures into modern transport systems, altering industry, commerce and society across Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Empire’s Witness: A Soldier’s Secret War Diary 1942-5, by Philip James Day
A moving and beautifully crafted blend of wartime memoir, transforming one soldier’s forgotten journal into an extraordinary journey across the British Empire and back home again.
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Johan Wennström
Dr. Johan Wennström is a research fellow at the Swedish Defence University and author of the forthcoming book The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians (Osprey/Bloomsbury 2026). He is also a researcher at Uppsala University. Previously, he spent nine years as a doctoral student and researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
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Sugar Plum
Set during the Second World War, the story combines historical details about the challenges of putting on ballet performances in London during the war, with a fictional tale where magic and reality intermingle during a production of Casse Noisette.
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