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Source of British school kid's history textbook
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ancient-welly
11 yrs ago
In my fourth year at secondary school we were taught about the Amewrican War of Independence as part of a study of the late 18th century. In later years I read a biography of the great agriculturalist and Whig, Coke of …
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Which of these words would you use in "polite conversation"?
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Re: Which of these words would you use in "polite conversation"?
ancient-welly
15 yrs ago
CP Snow refers in one of his books to "a good Trollopeian backside" implying that the character in question - a young Cambridge don, I think - was rather broad-in-the-beam! I daresay that Laurence Sterne, in "The life a…
ancient-welly
17 yrs ago
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I joined yesterday, after a recommendation from Ardachy. Book-Crossing seems to me to be an innovative idea to get books circulating in the literal sense; one of mine is now in Portugal, thanks to Ardachy, and I should …
