Remove society north-south-divide
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Want to properly plug the UK’s north-south divide? Look to Germany | Larry Elliott

The Guardian Higher Education

Boosting spending power, increasing public funding for science and tech skills, R&D and infrastructure could work Britain has been struggling to find a solution to its north-south divide since the staple industries of the first Industrial Revolution – textiles and coal – started to decline in the early 20th century.

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Debunking U.S. History

Confessions of a Community College Dean

history, illustrate this interpretive divide in its starkest form. responses to the Great Depression in comparative perspective and ask why Western and Northern European societies were far more successful in combating joblessness and instituting a welfare state in the midst of financial collapse.