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Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
Banned Books and Freedom of Expression The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...
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To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...
Broadside Ballads of 17th Century England Lucie Skeaping, Broadcaster, Performer and Director of The City Waites...
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Late, 1971-1976 ‘In the history of art late works are the catastrophes,’...