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Europe: can the centre hold?

  • October 29, 2026
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Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) president of the United States,Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) president of the United States,
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  • October 28, 2026
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A 1798 cartoon by James Gillray depicting Admiral Horatio Nelson destroying 'Revolutionary Crocodiles' coloured with the French Tricolore, after the Battle of the Nile at Aboukir Bay.
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When the Mediterranean was a British lake

  • October 28, 2026
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Sawrey Gilpin’s 'Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms' illustrates a scene from Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel ‘Gulliver’s Travels' where Gulliver departs from the land of the rational Houyhnhnms. Credit: Art Collection 3
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The flesh and bones of Gulliver’s Travels

  • October 27, 2026
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The Festival of Unity and Indivisibility on the place de la Révolution, Paris, 10 August 1793, by Pierre-Antoine Demachy.
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How France’s Jacobin state paved the way for the riots

  • October 27, 2026
  • Marc Le Chevallier
A Quaker meeting, late 17th century, by Egbert van Heemskerck.
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The invention of equality

  • October 26, 2026
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‘Chillon, Lake Geneva’ by Albert Goodwin. The castle stands near Montreux, on the stretch of shore where Brookner set ‘Hotel du Lac’.
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Anita Brookner’s answer to ‘Death in Venice’

  • October 26, 2026
  • Lesley Chamberlain
The docks at La Villette ablaze on 27 May 1871, during the final days of the Paris Commune. Anonymous, 19th century. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
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