The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe
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'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos,...
Law, Crime and Deviance Since 1700: Micro-Studies in the History of Crime
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Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the...
The Transformation of St Pancras Station
Alastair Lansley and Stuart Durant
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At the end of 2007, St Pancras became the new London terminus for the highspeed channel tunnel rail...
Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-artist and Blackmailer
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Madame Rachel had everything: a Mayfair address, the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen', a...
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to...
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories...
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
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'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming...
Jason and Medea
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'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them,...
Greek Mythology
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
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'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful...