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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
The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from ...
The history of China takes many forms. The Communist party produces official histories, of course, which support the narrative of preordained Marxist triumphs—resulting in more than a fair share of el
Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth ...
Emma Justice sets sail on a bucket-list voyage of discovery from Shanghai to Shenzhen