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The sense-haunted ground: landscape, memory and Normandy 1944
Reposted for the anniversary of D-Day.
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Nottingham alabaster: objects of strangeness, mystery and devotion
How the English Reformation tried to obliterate a unique medieval artform
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Review: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
It was a joy to write about this exhilarating new fantasy for Engelsberg Ideas
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The writer's bookshelf: James Marriott
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The writer's bookshelf: Victoria Moul
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Re-imagining Elizabethan London
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Auden by Peter Ackroyd
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History in plain sight: four Anglo-Saxon churches to visit
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The writer's bookshelf: Lucy Allen Goss
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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News: an exhibition in Vilnius, two literary prizes, and some summer reading
A little more miscellaneous than usual but none the worse for that…
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The ten best books about the Crusades
My pick of both fiction and non-fiction titles for The Telegraph
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The writer's bookshelf: Amanda Craig
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Review: Elizabeth I: Queen & Court
A compact but powerful new exhibition at the Philip Mould Gallery
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The writer's bookshelf: Samira Shackle
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Microhistories #16: the world's first international war crimes trial
A fifteenth-century precedent for the post-war prosecutions at Nuremberg
May 29
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First sight: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
What reviewers made of this classic novel on publication in 1926
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The writer's bookshelf: Victoria MacKenzie
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