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1261
Raw Haste Sir Reginald Coupland

The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.

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1262
Rebel Rugby Clay Lane

The Nazi-collaborating Vichy government in France paid Rugby League the supreme compliment: they banned it.

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1263
‘Recessional’ Rudyard Kipling

A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.

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Recollections of Slavery Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys ran into a little knot of seafaring men at the Exchange, who told him some hair-raising tales about their time in Algiers.

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1265
Redeemed for Five Shillings Elfric of Eynsham

Elfric, the tenth-century English abbot, suggests a practical way of thinking about the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

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Redeeming Time Charles Dickens

Pip Pirrip never misses a moment of visiting time with Abel Magwitch, the convict who made him into a gentleman, in the prison hospital.

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