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November 2019 Issue Charles Elliott The £569 Pineapple An Economic History of the English Garden By Roderick Floud LR
June 2018 Issue Blair Worden A Polite People? In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England By Keith Thomas LR
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