This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...
Timeline
11 November 1965: Ian Smith and the white rulers of the British...
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11 November 1965
Ian Smith
and the white rulers of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) unilaterally declared independence; the UK declared the regime illegal but did not use force against it.
Howard, Anthony. “The Unsolved Mystery of the Money Tree”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 31.
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November 1978: The leader of the Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe,...
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November 1978
The leader of the Liberal Party
, Jeremy Thorpe
, was charged by a court at Minehead in Somerset with conspiracy to murder.
Howard, Anthony. “The Unsolved Mystery of the Money Tree”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 31.
