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GE • TT Y^ I M AG ES /LO OK A ND LE AR N tablet that covers the grave was unveiled during the 1921 Armistice Day service. Rife b ...

Britain in 1921 A bloody divide Republicans demonstrate against the execution of IRA volunteers by the British government, Dubli ...

GE TT Y^ IM AG ES /M AR Y^ E VA NS /B RI DG EM AN One mother reported feeling miserable and “worn out with struggling in the ...

TO PF OT O/ GE TT Y^ IM AG ES /M AR Y^ E VA NS Britain in 1921 Flappers drank alcohol, smoked cigarettes, partied hard – and cha ...

Sarah Hellawell is lecturer in modern British history at the University of Sunderland AL AM Y/ GE TT Y^ I M AG ES Kate Meyrick, ...

GE TT Y^ IM AG ES /B BC competing with each other, that Britain’s General Post Office granted a broadcasting monopoly to a singl ...

BB C/ SH UT TE RS TO CK airwaves in November, the company was squeezed into a single room in Magnet House, just off London’s Kin ...

LISTEN stuffed full of men who had fought in the war, military metaphors and titles abounded. Sieveking – like Cecil Lewis, an e ...

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Enemies of the state 1 From William Wallace to Lord Haw-Haw, over the past seven centuries the authorities have repeatedly sough ...

2 TRYING TIMES 1 Crowds gather outside Wandsworth Prison after the execution of Nazi propagandist William Joyce in 1946 (^2) The ...

GE TT Y^ I M AG ES /A LA M Y O n 23 August 1305, William Wallace was convicted of treason at West- minster Hall in London. He th ...

GE TT Y^ I M AG ES /A LA M Y T o some in the era of Elizabeth I, the Jesuit priest Edmund Campi- on was an evil Catholic “traito ...

T he mid-17th century was a violent age across Britain and Ireland, illustrated by the execution of King Charles I for treason. ...

AL AM Y/ G ET TY IM AG ES 6 Rough justice for a regicide’s wife The fate of Alice Lisle in 1685 shone a harsh light on biased, b ...

7 Revolutionary jitters In 1794, the government – spooked by turmoil in France – embarked on an ill-fated attempt to prosecute a ...

8 Dying for Ireland The trial of Roger Casement, hanged in 1916 for seeking German aid, raised the issue of citizens with divide ...

T he essence of treason has remained static through the centuries, as a crime that seriously endangers state security, often in ...

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