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Annunciation to the Shepherds, twelfth century psalter – BL, MS Cotton Caligula A. vii/l, f.6v.

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History from Between: Global Circulations of the Past in East Asia and Europe

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Photograph of J B Priestley as a Lance Corporal, 1915

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