Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights
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Near the end of the Second World War, new ideas about citizenship, national identity, belonging, and...
Bodies of Light
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Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century...
A Cupboard Full of Coats
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He just knocked, that was all, knocked at the front door and waited, like the fourteen years since...
Loot
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Young toy maker and dreamer Abbas is whisked away to Tipu Sultan's glorious palace in Mysore and...
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Salesman
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Selected by the Library of Congress as one of the most significant American films ever made,...
That Inevitable Victorian Thing
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Speculative fiction from the acclaimed bestselling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars:...
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The Lure of the Honey Bird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia
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In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird set off for Addis Ababa to take up her first teaching...
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
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In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. 'Kim' Philby, the...
La Jetee
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Chris Marker's La Jetee is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still...
Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism
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The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable...