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Hearing voices from the Chilembwe Rising
In 1915, the Reverend John Chilembwe led a short-lived but violent uprising in the British Protectorate of Nyasaland – what is now Malawi – which sent shock waves through Britain’s possessions in south-east Africa. One hundred years later, the British Academy has published the evidence presented at the Inquiry that …
Three new British Academy editions of historical texts, autumn 2018
Three new editions: ‘The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736’, edited by Anne L Murphy (Records of Social and Economic History, New Series); ‘Richard Rufus of Cornwall: Sententia cum quaestionibus in libros De anima Aristotelis’, edited by Jennifer R Ottman, Rega Wood, Neil Lewis and Christopher J Martin …
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