First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Scottish-Jewish Catholic dame: " Dame Lettie Colston refilled her fountain-pen and...
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The family enthroned
Queen Victoria
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Watching history in the filming
The Movies as History
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Bureaucrats in their own words
John Profumo and Christine Keeler, 1963 - R101 - Rillington Place - The Boer War, 1900 - The British Invasion of Tibet - The Judgement of Nuremberg, 1946 - The Loss of the Titanic, 1912 - The Strange...
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Wars that shaped the world
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval World
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Between Stalin and Lady Muriel
Inside Stalin's Russia
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The race that became Iran
Frontier Fictions
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Spreading the good news
Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999
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The attraction of poles
Farthest North
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Deaths on the Nile
The Black Pharaohs
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Captivating images
Colonial India and the Making of Blind Memory
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Movie nights at the Imperial
Empire Cinema
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Laurie Taylor column
From : the departmental secretary, Maureen 1. Christmas Party Previous attempts to organise a departmental Christmas party on the last Friday of term have been somewhat bedevilled by low turnouts....
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Letter: I smell a bat
The picture used to illustrate my piece ("Beautiful sounds from foul singers", THES, November 24) was misleading. First, it was printed upside down. More important, the bats shown in no way resemble...