A leap into the unknown

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A leap into the unknown

Ignorance: A Global History Peter Burke

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Country Life Magazine

25 January, 2023

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Inheriting norman lewis’s library

I have the problem with bookcases that everyone has, namely their failure to expand indefinitely to accommodate the permanent leakage of books from the outside world into my house. When I downsized to

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Poetry in motion

You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a

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In brief: animals

The TLS

Inheriting norman lewis’s library

Country Life

A view through the woods

A Russia of trees and liberty and peace: ...

The Week UK

Pick of the week’s correspondence

LETTERS

Country Life

A question of inheritance