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...writing tablets provide brilliant shafts of light on aspects of daily life than would otherwise remain entirely unknown. The names of hundreds of individuals have appeared, ranging from senior commanding officers to private soldiers, from officers’ wives to personal slaves, and from the Governor of Britain’s groom to baths orderlies, brewers, pig keepers, pharmacists...

...Writing in The Times, Gavin Bell sounded a warning about what might follow from a winter of discontent in Northern Ireland: "The militant 'loyalists' of Ulster are emerging from a winter of discontent and preparing for a summer of murderous political violence." 1987 In Spain, a ban on political demonstrations attempted to keep a lid on simmering social tensions. Would it...

...Writing much later on, Browne recalled another anecdote specifically linking mental recovery with a patient’s experience of Scottish music: A lady after hearing Scotch music retired to bed degraded, mute, fatuous; she arose next morning and remained permanently of right and rational mind, quietly remarking to the physician, that “The banks and braes o’ bonny Doon...