H elen Cam (1885-1968), the first woman to be elected to a chair at Harvard, was a formidable English medievalist. Unusually ...

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Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall (2009) is an example of historical fiction. This novel is based on real people and historical events in the court of Henry VIII, but Hilary Mantel also uses her ...

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