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Mind Your Language

I was looking for an obscure work by Richarde Weste (fl. 1609-16) when I came across a real treat. The DNB told me Weste's book was edited by Frederick Furnivall in the Early......

Sleeping With Freda

As the care crisis worsens, Jeremy Clarke recalls the strange final years of a spinster who lived in a residential home run by his parents M iss Busby's room — room five — had a......