Is the concept and understanding of “Middle Class” still relevant to Britain today? What was the British middle class? It’s a phrase we still use almost every day. Politicians appeal to it, newspapers write about it, and many of us instinctively think we know what it means. Yet historians have spent decades trying to define […]
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…and does it matter? History has an awkward habit of returning to the stories we “safely forgot”. And that is why history is more than remembrance. It is a series of cyclical patterns that beg to be recognised at the right time. We study the past not simply to admire it, but to recognise familiar
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Why did I call my substack site “The Missing Pages”? 16 years of research into Murder at the Docks produced a story to tell in its own right. But there were so many other themes and backstories to look into that by the time I was finished I realised I had written:– A murder mystery.–
