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Sandy Hook officials are telling the story of Refugeetown, a Revolutionary War community that offered freedom to Black people loyal to the crown.

Sandy Hook officials are telling the story of Refugeetown, a Revolutionary War community that offered freedom to Black people loyal to the crown.

The New York of Charles Dickens’s first visit remains recognizable. It is still, as Dickens observed, “a great emporium of commerce” and a “place of general resort.”

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In this blog, Rare Books and Music Curator Dr Susannah Helman explores the Library’s holdings of what has become a classic Christmas work, and early editions of other works by the German-born English composer George Frideric Handel (1685–1759).

 

If only we had listened.  "The lessons of extravagance and paternalism must be unlearned; economy and frugality must be reinstated; and the people must exact from their representatives a watchful care for the general welfare and a stern resistance to the demands of selfish interests, if our Government is to be an enduring and beneficent protection to a patriotic and virtuous people."

In this excerpt from a people’s history of the Eastern Cape city, Buntu Siwisa captures the struggles and triumphs of a man who insisted on upgrading township schools and ferried anti-apartheid fugitives.

Dave Skinner says that all football fans in Bristol deserves to be able to enjoy the regular spectacle of a City vs Rovers derby

A decade ago our biggest newspaper publisher made an ill-fated deal to send its almost all of its entire archive of photos offshore to be digitised. They never came back - and now their LA-based owner has put them on the market online, hoping a buyer will put them in public hands.