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Colourful devotee with a passion for repeating his past
Adventures in Egypt and Nubia
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Diggers, Quakers, movers, shakers
Britain in Revolution
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Multiple personality of the once or never king
King Arthur
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Mighty in pen, sword and amour
Prince of Europe
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Vivid voices unveil prized vitality
Cameroon's Tycoon - Memoirs of a Mbororo - Swedish Ventures in Cameroon 1883-1923
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Laurie Taylor column
Dear Professor Lapping, I wonder if you remember me? My name is Mike Humphreys and I graduated from Poppleton with a third-class degree in media and cultural studies in 1977. And that is exactly why...
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Fathers of invention
John Holter and Roald Dahl both had sons with hydrocephalus. In striving to help their children, their insights and innovations ushered in a new medical era, writes Richard Hayward, winner of The...
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The diary of a space geek
Kevin Fong is immersed in UK efforts to regain a foothold in the space programme. In excerpts from his diary he records the difficulties of balancing extraterrestrial interests with two real jobs....
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Step out from the martyr's shadow
The history and heroes of Ireland have cast the Irish as victims. That portrayal needs to end, says Marianne Elliott. I cannot recall when I first encountered the legend of Robert Emmet. I do not...
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Understanding built into walls and windows
Stirling University's Dementia Services Centre is working from the floor up to improve lives, writes Terry Philpot On July 16 1989, Mary Marshall was arranging her new desk on her first day as...
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Lazy days? No such thing for a man with a sporting mission
One inventive academic uses his long break to tone up his spin-offs, Caroline Davis writes in the last article of our summer series. Not a lot of people know this, but the thought of going away for...
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England of my father, aka 'the coloured influx'
Archive virgin Sara Wajid was touched, appalled, thrilled and angered when working on Moving Here, a free website that contains 200 years of UK immigrant history. As a child, parents and primary...
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Life - just as we know it
If the world had been different, would humans still have evolved? Without doubt, says Simon Conway Morris. Imagine if evolution were run again. Would something as strange as a human again emerge?...
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BA answers and more questions 1
"Minister to reply to MP's letter" might be thought a more accurate if less colourful headline to your report ("Ministers to probe BA's 'old-boy bias'", THES, August 22), especially given the comment...