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Laurence Westwood
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Jan 15, 2025 ∙ 3 min
Victorians, Volcanoes and Vanishing Species: The Great Auk’s Tragic Story
In the spring of 1848, two British naturalists, John Wolley and Alfred Newton, sailed to Iceland, propelled by equal measures of ambition...
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Jan 1, 2025 ∙ 3 min
In Defence of Papillon
It was 1976, or maybe 1977, during a hated French lesson, that Ajay, sitting behind me in class, tapped me on the back and muttered out...
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Dec 22, 2024 ∙ 4 min
Navigating Empire: Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers in the Far East
The year was 1810, the place was Canton - a city on the edge of Qing Dynasty China, where trade and tension often mingled in precarious...
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