It's been a dog's life this century
Progress and Barbarism
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Obscure orbits of Soviet stars
Korolev - Starman
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Outsiders' insights
Out of the Third Reich
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Pure science, no apologies
Peace and War
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Great bad bottom fetishist?
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-15 - Napoleon
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Pot shot at Elizabeth's sea-dog
Sir Francis Drake
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Power dressing
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire
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Victorian nosology deciphered
An Atlas of Victorian Mortality
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The words made flesh
The Day-Star of Liberty
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel set in the American civil war, whose author died of TB, aged 28: The cold passed reluctantly...
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Are historians to be trusted?
Historical Controversies and Historians
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A history of great Gregorys
The Conversion of Europe - Gregory the Great and his World
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Digging for Levellers, Ranters and Quakers
England's Turning Point - Liberty against the Law
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A land of pride and prejudice
Colonial Indology
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Higher channels
In a new weekly column, John Davies selects radio and television programmes of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Cold War (Saturday 8.10 BBC2). Jeremy Isaacs was...