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WEBThe Belgrano Diary. The sinking of the General Belgrano was the bloodiest and most controversial military action of the Falklands War. This is the story of a diary written onboard the British submarine that fired the torpedoes, the diary that proved Thatcher’s government hadn’t told the truth about what happened.
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WEBThe London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas.Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from art and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy, not to mention fiction and poetry.In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre ...
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WEBApr 18, 2024 · Political Poems: ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 28 April 2024. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery and killing her child was written to shock its intended white female readership to the abolitionist cause.
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WEBThe UBA, which is consistently ranked among the best universities in Latin America, could shut down in May. With the budget frozen at 2023 levels, in real terms universities are broke. Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.
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WEBThe Long and Short. For the third series of their ‘revolutionary *****’ (The Times) discussions, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry consider the long poem and the short story. Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.
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WEBMay 1, 2024 · The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey. James Pratt and John Smith were the last men hanged in England for the crime of sodomy, reported to the authorities by ...
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WEBLRB Selections 1: Frank Kermode ‘Papers speak through their writers. And of all the London Review’s writers Frank Kermode was the one through whom we spoke most often and most eloquently.’– Mary-Kay Wilmers. Without Frank Kermode there would have been no London Review of Books.In July 1979, during the management lock-out at the Times, he wrote an article in the Observer calling for a ...
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WEBIn the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, a poem about politics but also political inasmuch as nobody can agree on what it …
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