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It is no surprise that politics and religion should once again take centre stage in this familiar account of the Tudor ‘golden age’, says <em>Sam Leith</em>

issue 22 September 2012

  • The History of England, Volume II: Tudors

    Peter Ackroyd

    Macmillan, pp. 507

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