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Denis Judd looks at a book on the cultural interactions and achievements that accompanied Britain’s imperial expansion
The famous author's attempts to help Victorian prostitutes
Mike Rapport looks at a history of Europe’s 19th- and 20th-century anarchists
Roger Moorhouse on a tale of heroic enterprise in the Second World War
Richard Alston looks at an expert account of a civilisation that was defeated and humiliated by the Roman empire
Joe Maiolo is impressed with the scope of a concise book on the Second World War
Ghandi began his campaign of satyagraha or non-violent civil disobedience against British rule by leading a march to Dandi to make salt from seawater in defiance of an act which prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt.
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