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Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role of the queen in British and European history

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Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life

This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull

Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty

Robert Thicknesse on Rossini’s extraordinary de-cluttering of the musical atmosphere

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