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The long, long 19th century

TALKING POINTS

Historical consultant (@HallieRubenhold) noted on Twitter in February that “a lot of people’s concepts of ‘the past’… are decidedly coloured by the 19th century… It’s like the century has become a visual shorthand for ‘the past’, and I

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