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... popular culture of England is something that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . One thing one notices if one looks directly at the common people , especially in the big towns , is ...
... popular culture of England is something that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . One thing one notices if one looks directly at the common people , especially in the big towns , is ...
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... popularity are always a tale of disasters and retreats . There is no popular poem about Trafalgar or Waterloo , for instance . Sir John Moore's army at Corunna , fighting a desperate rear- guard action before escaping overseas ( just ...
... popularity are always a tale of disasters and retreats . There is no popular poem about Trafalgar or Waterloo , for instance . Sir John Moore's army at Corunna , fighting a desperate rear- guard action before escaping overseas ( just ...
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... popular feeling against Fascism ? Anyone who was genuinely hostile to Fascism must also be opposed to Chamberlain himself , and to all the others who had helped Hitler into power . So also with external propa- ganda . In all Lord ...
... popular feeling against Fascism ? Anyone who was genuinely hostile to Fascism must also be opposed to Chamberlain himself , and to all the others who had helped Hitler into power . So also with external propa- ganda . In all Lord ...
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