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Lever-Arch Inquisitor

John Barrell

  • Theatres of Memory, Vol. II. Island Stories: Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light

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John Barrell has coedited, with Jon Mee, an eight-volume edition of political trials of the 1790s for Pickering and Chatto. He teaches at the University of York.

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