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...family and eventually inherited this estate. The biographical record suggests that Austen spent a total of some ten weeks in this house on a number of visits, during which she made use of the library. This image is based on a contemporary engraving, and the horse-drawn carriage clearly engaged in a pleasure outing that trots briskly through a Capability Brown landscape...

...come to achieving the aims of its leaders?...Ireland has a long and troubled past. Not always on the best of terms with its British neighbour, armed struggle has been a recurring feature in the island's history. But how close did a group of republicans come to independence from the United Kingdom? [What was the Easter Rising? - The arts past and present (3/6)] Transcript...

...history?" There are a lot of answers to this, but one important reason is that people are already talking about history, and sometimes, they have got it seriously wrong. One example of this is the widespread ignorance of the Bengal famine. For me, the 'killer facts' about the Bengal famine are straightforward. In 1941, when the Battle of the Atlantic was at its height,...