The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
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David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to...

The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
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A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with...
Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism: Gender and Psychoanalysis, 1753-1835
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Debates about gender in the British Romantic period often invoked the idea of sexual enjoyment:...

There's Been a Life! My Autobiography
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Since his first tentative steps on stage, Alex Norton's career has been both highly colourful and...

The Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
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On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman...