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CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
HONORABLE TRADITION OF PROTEST: Junior doctors on a picket line outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital, as thousands go on strike in a dispute with the government over new contracts, January 2016

Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
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USING Liverpool as a prism to reflect on the “unmaking” of Britain is a departure from most treatments of the city.

Liverpudlians have often represented themselves as apart from the nation, as internationalists and Atlanticists, as more Irish than English.

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