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One of the immediate and most important effects of the Act of Union in 1707 was the creation of a united free trade area managed from London. When pre-industrialization began a few decades later it ...

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Battle of Britain fighter defences map, 1940 (Catalogue ref: AIR 41/16) ...

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Leaflet from the Campaign Against Nuclear Disarmament (CND) which advocated unilateral disarmament about a planned march to Aldermaston in 1958. (Catalogue ref: HO 325/149) The Atomic Weapons Research ...