Archive for September 29th, 2010

Germany end World War One reparations after 92 years with £59m final payment

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Germany will finally clear its First World War debt by repaying nearly £60million this weekend.

The £22billion reparations were set by the Allied victors – mostly Britain, France and America – as compensation and punishment for the 1914-18 war.

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29th September 1810 (200 years ago today) Elizabeth Gaskell was born

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Gaskell was a Victorian novelist, also notable for her biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë…[more]

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