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How Britain Abolished Slavery
By Clay Lane
The Church, mother Nature and free markets had almost done for slavery at home when colonies in the New World brought it back.
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The Obstinacy of Fowell Buxton
Fatherless teenage tearaway Fowell Buxton was not a promising boy, but the Gurney family changed all that.
279
The Battle of Jutland
Preventing the German fleet from breaking out into the Atlantic in 1916 should have felt like victory, but it felt like defeat.
280
The Boer Wars
South African settlers of Dutch descent could not escape the march of the British Empire.
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Wellington’s Secret
By Samuel Smiles
The future hero of Waterloo dealt with political ambush as comfortably as he dealt with the military kind.
282
The Greeks, the Governor and the Potatoes
John Kapodistrias had an instinct for how a long-oppressed people might think.
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