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When I Grow Up
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Richard Toye
A Liberal Lover
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Pistols in Putney
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The Poet Pamphleteer
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David Cesarani
The Romance of Israel
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Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft
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Tewodros the Tragic
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The Man and the Myth
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A Gentleman In Politics
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At the Ballot Box
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That Special Relationship
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Edward Norman
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Star-Crossed Allies
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Edward Norman
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Just William?
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In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors.
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