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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Scottish-Jewish Catholic dame: " Dame Lettie Colston refilled her fountain-pen and...
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The family enthroned
Queen Victoria
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Watching history in the filming
The Movies as History
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Bureaucrats in their own words
John Profumo and Christine Keeler, 1963 - R101 - Rillington Place - The Boer War, 1900 - The British Invasion of Tibet - The Judgement of Nuremberg, 1946 - The Loss of the Titanic, 1912 - The Strange...
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Wars that shaped the world
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval World
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Between Stalin and Lady Muriel
Inside Stalin's Russia
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The race that became Iran
Frontier Fictions
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Spreading the good news
Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999
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The attraction of poles
Farthest North
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Deaths on the Nile
The Black Pharaohs
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Captivating images
Colonial India and the Making of Blind Memory
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Movie nights at the Imperial
Empire Cinema
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Laurie Taylor column
From : the departmental secretary, Maureen 1. Christmas Party Previous attempts to organise a departmental Christmas party on the last Friday of term have been somewhat bedevilled by low turnouts....