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Reviews
“The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning ... an imaginative tour de force.”
“Provocative, original ... a powerful testimony to the unending dialogue between the present and the past that is the essence and excitement of history.”
“A stunning collection ... humane, optimistic, multi-textured, ever-meandering but always sparkling ... One of the finest and—paradoxically—most quintessentially English historians of our time.”
“A magnificent and irreplaceable collection.”
“A provocative lens into both the remote and the near British past.”
“Deeply researched, intelligently argued, lovingly presented, thoroughly excitable and immensely stimulating ... [Samuel is] as comfortable with seventeenth-century sectarians as with Victorian nonconformists, as familiar with the townlands of Ireland as the streets of London.”
“A rich fund of subversive ideas.”
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