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In Pursuit of Margaret Paston

For twenty five years Diane Watt has been searching letters and landscapes for traces of one of the fifteenth-century's most intriguing figures

By Unseen Histories

August 15^th, 2024

Footnotes With thanks to Elle-Jay Christodoulou

© 2024 Unseen Histories

Mill District, Pittsburgh, by Jack Delano

We search for the source of this classic image by one of twentieth century's great documentary photographers

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From Paris to India, King Richard II to the Commonwealth of England

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Dr Nicola Presley traces the hope and despair of William Golding's novel back to the years of war

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Winner of the Cundill History Prize: Native Nations

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