Tancred Bradshaw LONDON One of the surprises of Britain’s withdrawal from the Middle East was the successful creation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971. …
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P. G. Wodehouse and Politics: What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It?
Speaker - David Leal, Nuffield College, Oxford P.G. Wodehouse was England’s greatest comic writer. His new memorial at Westminster Abbey celebrates his …
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The Novels of Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde
Speaker - Sandra Mayer Oscar Wilde once described Benjamin Disraeli’s life as ‘the most brilliant of paradoxes’. It served as a model for someone who, as an …
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