Monthly Archives: December 2011

Extract from History Today, January edition, 2012 Each month we recommend a work of history recently published in paperback.  We discuss the book with its author and invite readers to contribute to the dialogue on our website.  The History Today Book … Continue reading

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The makings of a modern Christmas Cooked peacocks and dead robins have come and gone, but today’s festival draws on many other unlikely tastes and rituals.  Lucy Worsley in The Telegraph, 22.12.2011 ‘Take a peacock, break its neck and cut … Continue reading

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Four curators nominate their favourite living expert in the field.  Article in The Guardian, 7 December 2011, by Anna Tims Lucy Worsley on Ros Savill Ros Savill, the recently retired director of the Wallace Collection in London, is an old-school but … Continue reading

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