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    Three Things I've Learned This Month
    In Kavita Puri's Hidden Histories column (page 18) she writes that the Mughal empire's annual revenue in the early 17th century was “100 times greater than that of England and Scotland under James VI & I”. Following the recent ravages of Storm Bert,
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    Q&A
    Leeches were used for bloodletting, a treatment based on the humoral theory described by the Greek physicians Hippocrates (c460–370 BC) and Galen (AD 129–216). This model, which dominated understanding of illness and medicine for millennia, held that
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    The Classic Book
    It was my mother who first introduced me to this book. She was moved by the moment at which Carolyn Steedman discovers that her birth certificate erroneously records her parents as married. As a family with its share of historical illegitimacy and wr

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