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Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham

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“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham

The global reach of the Indo-European mother tongue

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

Violent protest is nothing new for the French. It’s part of the nation’s eternal quest for Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité