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Simon Schama

Simon Schama‘s most recent book is A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603–1776, the companion volume to his ongoing BBC/History Channel television series. (February 2002)

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The English Rothschilds

by Richard Davis

Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, Butterflies and History

by Miriam Rothschild

December 20, 1984 issue

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