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Dear Editor, As we commemorate Emancipation Day on August 1 — the anniversary of the abolition of chattel slavery in the ...

June Muriel Brown was one of the country’s best-known and most-loved soap actresses with a career spanning more than 75 years ...

VJ Day will be honoured and remembered with special programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and the BBC Archive to mark ...

The East India Company was instrumental in the establishment of British dominance in India. It occupied and ruled a large ...

Cleo Laine, an English singer who moved easily among musical genres with a dazzling vocal range of almost five octaves and ...

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Among the new elements of this year’s party is the return of Grail Ale, a reddish amber beer that was the first the brewery ...

Rod Bransgrove, the former Chair of Hampshire Cricket, has been awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for his major contributions to sport. He led the transformation of the club, securing its ...

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A former BBC Panorama journalist who spent decades reporting on the Troubles has been formally made a Commander of the ...