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Taking inspiration from the heated discussions that preceded the birth of federal government in the United States, Larry Siedentop investigates what we can reasonably expect and what we have to fear from a united Europe. Despite the profound hostility between skeptics and proponents of a united Europe, the outlines of serious public debate have barely been sketched. While skeptics talk of national sovereignty and invoke the spirit of wartime resistance, Europhiles embrace the idealism of eurozones and sound economic management. Larry ...

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Interesting discussion of the need for a constitution to protect the European Union from a (French) bureaucratic power.

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There is no previous monograph article on the Radio Security Service [RSS], the British organisation established to intercept the wireless messages of enemy spies during World War Two. This gap can be filled by drawing on private papers and documents in the National Archives from MI5, Bletchley Park, the War Office and the Admiralty. The official historians F.H. Hinsley and C.A.G. Simkins praised RSS efficiency, but MI5 records suggest that while RSS voluntary interceptors were competent, the same was not always ...

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The Old English Bede (OEB), a vernacular version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica (HE), was written sometime before c.900, possibly at King Alfred's behest. It adds little to Bede's text but makes substantial excisions and abbreviations, removing much historical narrative, many quoted documents and most references to theological controversy. It is often argued that Bede provided an ideological blueprint for the creation of a single English kingdom in the tenth century, but the parts of the HE upon which this interpretation depends ...