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The part played by slavery in the growth of British prosperity
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Britain’s response to the Irish Great Famine
Rural Britain looks peacefully idyllic, but dig deeper and you’ll find a dark and complex history. Corinne Fowler takes a country walk in Hampshire and into the nation’s colonial past.
Life in the Victorian slums was balanced on a knife-edge; one late rent payment or missed meal could have fatal results. Born against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, urban areas swelled wit
It was a raucous scene, as Jacobean banquets tended to be. Men and women of the court, one observer recalled, “rolled in intoxication”. Even the most temperate had collapsed into “brutish delights”, l
Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth ...
SPIRITS MAFALDA QUINO Translated by Frank Wynne ...
