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Lines of Thought: Telling the Story of History

16 Sep 2016

Shakespeare's 'First Folio', Dante's Divine Comedy , and fragments of Homer's Odyssey from the second century CE, are among the objects in our final...

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A portrait of Augusta of Saxony-Gotha from the time of her wedding in 1736

̽»¨Ö±²¥Royal Wedding… of 1736

27 Apr 2011

For those at the heart of this week's Royal Wedding, the big day will be full of stress and worry. But that's nothing compared with the experiences...

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Athens acropolis

̽»¨Ö±²¥Athenians: Another warning from history?

02 Oct 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson...

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