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The Rescue Of A Great English Ruler

Eric Christiansen KING ALFRED THE GREAT by Alfred P. Smyth OUP, £25, pp. 744 I n 1901 a grateful and self-confident nation saw in Alfred of Wessex the genius of Anglo-Saxon......

Forward From Bengali Women's Football

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