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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

22 April, 2025

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John Blair Killing the Dead Vampire epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World 536pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). A dead body, as anyone who has sat with one will know, is an unsettling

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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

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‘my grandfathers fought on opposite sides in ww2’

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Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

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A question of inheritance