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The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from ...

Spain’s provincial authorities were usually compliant, González said, in part because the exhumations don’t cost them any money. The association relies on donations, and its members run a support ...

It was spoken primarily by the rural poor; the expansion of state education, which began in the 1830s, meant that English soon became Ireland’s common language. Although Ireland had endured earlier ...

From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years ...

In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like ...

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Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...

The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and ...

Girl Violence, the third album by King Princess, is my favourite pop record in a good year for pop. It’s all over ...

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