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...communities then and now cannot be doubted. Locating and naming a battlefield is an important part of the process by which the past is owned and made sense of, thus becoming History and part of our shared national heritage. These historic battlefields, as the work of the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society and the Battlefields Trust show, are not just restricted to the...

...communities would continue to face injustices and discriminatory laws for generations to come. Harriet Tubman in Retrospect The immediate post-war years treated Tubman badly – she was refused a military pension, and was left poor and still illiterate. However, her finances and public recognition improved dramatically when her admirer Sarah Bradford published an account...

...community, were maintained by the British. British troops remained stationed in Egypt, and Britain reserved the right to increase troop levels during a state of war. The events of 1919 in Egypt show how the First World War played a crucial role in affecting the country’s history after the war ended.The interwar years saw a political dance take place between the British,...