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This is Bonnie MacBird's fourth Sherlock Holmes pastiche and it's just as intriguing as the first three. I'm about a fifth of the way through and the mysteries are building up. No spoilers, but some of Sherlock Holmes irritating habits are seen. The
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“It might seem odd to describe cookbooks as a product of political liberation, but Hannah Wolley’s works were to open a new way of learning to those not born to the trade. They were part of a democratization of knowledge which in turn may have had political impact. Monarchy makes sense in a world where younger servants learn from older servants in a strict hierarchy. Once print made it possible to learn outside that hierarchy, the existence of privileged knowledge and even privilege itself could be called into question.”
― The English Civil War: A People's History
― The English Civil War: A People's History
“Bodley’s librarian Thomas Hearne responded gallantly that Wood himself was ‘always looked upon in Oxford as a most egregious, illiterate, dull blockhead, a conceited impudent coxcomb’. The”
― The English Civil War: A People's History
― The English Civil War: A People's History
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