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A 'charming book' which provides an insight into life in Early Modern England at a time of enormous stress. |
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This large landscape shaped book draws on Philip Davies' bestselling Lost London, whilst also featuring previously unseen photographs. |
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Stephen Gundle reviews two books which explore Italian culture in the postwar decades. |
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Michael Sturma finds parallels in contemporary accounts of abductions by space aliens with European narratives of captivity by Indians and Aboriginals in early America and Australia. |
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