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The Essential Ques

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

07 March, 2023

Country Life

Putting cumbria on the map

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...

RADIO

Best books… Richard Holmes The biographer chooses five ...

The Critic

Lyrical wormholes into the past

A History of England in 25 Poems: Treasures ...

Time Magazine Europe

Family matters

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

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No justice no answers

I’ve lived in fear of Dad’s mystery killer for decades. Now it’s their turn to be scared