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Victoria, empress of India, never visited the jewel of her realm—Curzon
Wade Davis • Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Thomas Walsingham, a monk in St. Albans Abbey who witnessed the destruction of the abbey’s archive firsthand, described how the rebels “set fire to all court rolls and muniments, so that after they had got rid of these records of their ancient service their lords would not be able to claim any right at all against them at some future time.”[48] Kil
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Free movement
Mary Beard • SPQR
“William Sorley.”
Deborah Harkness • The Black Bird Oracle
The birth of liberty
Mary Beard • SPQR
remapping of London through an alignment of those churches designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
The eastern half of the empire continued largely to operate in Greek, not Latin. Local calendars were not much adjusted, apart from occasionally realigning to the life cycle of the emperor or celebrating his achievements. Travelling around the empire meant not just crossing time zones in our sense but moving between entirely different ways of calcu
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