The novel world of English literature in the 1700s
18th Century England featured an exciting literary milieu — but also political and religious upheaval. Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart investigate.
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Professor Jeremy Black on the reality of the slave economy created by the Caribbean’s European colonisers
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
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To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
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Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
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The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
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How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
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