V.G. Kiernan

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• V.G. Kiernan on the high price of poison · 23 June 1988

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• England rejects · 19 March 1987

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• Royal Mysteries · 10 January 1983

  • From Agadir to Armageddon: Anatomy of a Crisis by Geoffrey Barraclough

• V.G. Kiernan writes about the Marx sisters · 16 September 1982

  • The Daughters of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence 1866-98 edited by Olga Meier, translated by Faith Evans

• Lifting the Shadow · 15 April 1982

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• Joan and Jill · 15 October 1981

  • Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner

• Freaks of Empire · 16 July 1981

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