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Doctoral Fellowship with the National Trust on Georgian Bath

The British Library and the National Trust invite applications to a joint doctoral fellowship scheme, which aims to uncover…

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‘How come England did not know me?’: Recording Andrea Levy for Authors’ Lives

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A Description of Three Hundred Animals [page: frontispiece and title page]

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