The gutter life

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Bar-room politics and rising resentment in 1930s Berlin

Toby Lichtig

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23 January, 2026

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Back to the bardo

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Reading between the lines

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Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec