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Camden's Clever Questions

Atomic Hobo by JULIE MCDOWALL

Jul 22, 202637:34Society & Culture

Back into the archives to see what happened when Camden Borough Council wrote to the Home Office in 1984 with some clever questions. All the archive material referred to in the episode has been uploaded to my Patreon, so...

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