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The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest ...
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In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations ...
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Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry ...
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