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Did the Guardian actually call Oswald Mosley "Genuinely eager to champion the unemployed and other underdogs... dynamic and handsome, popular... gifted and a natural leader"?
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In 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'For a Few Dollars More', set in the 1870s/80s, the characters tend to move pretty easily between the US and Mexico. How permeable was the US-Mexico border at this time? If it was quite permeable, was it perceived as problematic, or an ordinary fact of life?
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Why does 8th century England seem to have produced such prominent Church scholars and evangelists active in continental Europe? E.g. Alcuin who ended up at the court of Charlemagne, or Boniface who gained sainthood for being martyred in Germany?
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It is often quipped that Sparta became a tourist destination under the Romans. Do we know – and if so, how do we know – what sort of people were going, for what reason and, potentially, what they thought?
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The Winter War of 1940 was infamously disastrous for the Soviet Union, yet the Continuation War with Finland in 1941-44 saw the USSR make significant gains. What changed?
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Who are the actual Nigerian princes? Did these positions and titles predate colonial rule or were they established by colonisers? How did their roles and status change under colonial rule and in postcolonial Nigeria? Is Nigeria unique in having princes or are there other equivalents in West Africa?
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The idea of the 'Sinicisation' (becoming Chinese) of the Manchus during the Qing Dynasty is no longer particularly accepted by historians of the period. But what of earlier conquest dynasties like the Mongol Yuan or the Xianbei Northern Wei? Has there been a shift there as well?
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In September 1989 protests broke out in East Germany seemingly calling for liberal reforms ('Wir sind das Volk'). How did these morph into calls for reunification ('Wir sind ein Volk') with the West so quickly by October? How far did supporters of the reforms align with supporters of reunification?
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