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The letters before they were opened and read by Renaud Morieux at The National Archives, Kew

French love letters confiscated by Britain finally read after 265 years

07 Nov 2023

Over 100 letters sent to French sailors, but never delivered, have been read for the first time since they were written in 1757-8. The letters...

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Annotating history: thoughts of an Elizabethan scholar revealed

21 Sep 2019

Previously unrecorded book from Gabriel Harvey’s collection extends our knowledge of one of the most conspicuous and fascinating early modern...

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