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It’s a sweltering day – muggy and drizzly – as my taxi crawls through a patchwork of east London council estates. When we ...

Thousands of Jewish children fled to Britain and other European countries in the 1938-39 rescue mission known as the ...

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Claire Pepper has released James and Ann Children of a Lead Miner, 1841, which tells the story of two children who lived in ...