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Alexander Paterson: Prison Reformer by Harry Potter is the first biography of the prison reformer Alexander Paterson (1884-1947).

The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Mike Hill, author of a fascinating new book, looks at what really happened in the words of the soldiers who took part IN December 1914, hundreds of soldiers from across County Durham were preparing for the first Christmas of the First World War away from their loved ones. For the men of the Durham Light Infantry regiment they were fortunate to be saf...