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7 Members of Jewish sect that died out with
the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and its
temple in AD 70 (9)
9 Combining term, as in the First
-Turkish War (1897) (5)
10 City of nor thern England, founded by the
Romans, and one of the last English towns to
fall to William the Conqueror (7)
11 Two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used
in battle and racing, for example by the
Egyptians, Greeks and Romans (7)
12 Celebrated Roman historian who thrived
in the time of Octavian/Augustus (4)
14 US Republican presidential candidate
beaten by Lyndon B Johnson in 1964 (9)
17 Battle of Februar y 1807 pitting France
against Russia and Prussia, resulting in
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18 English philosopher John , an
inspiration for the European Enlightenment
and the US Constitution (5)
22 Native American woman who achieved
lasting fame as an interpreter and advisor on
the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–06 (9)
24 John Stuart ____, English philosopher,
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25 American president born in poverty in
a backwoods cabin in Kentucky (7)
27 African leader deposed in 1979 by
Tanzanian forces aided by rebels from his
own army (3,4)
30 Prime minister whose indecisive
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of Britain’s American colonies (5)
31 On moving to England from
her native America she
married into the British
aristocracy, later
becoming an MP
(1919) (4,5)

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When There

Were Birds

By Roy and Lesley Adkins

This social history delves into

the complex relationship

between humans and birds in

Britain over the centuries.

Birds have played a crucial role

in the island’s history,

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and industries. These winged

creatures are also entwined

in a tangle of traditions,

supernatural associations

and superstitions.

Solution to our December 2021 crossword

Across 5 Ho Chi Minh 8 Model 10 Goa 11 Civil rights 12 Creon

13 Tuchman 16 Turpin 17 Apache 21 Edmund I 23 Syria

25 Wiremu Kingi 27 SAS 28 Ligny 29 Nemrut Dag

Down 1 Diocletian 2 Nirvana 3 Impi 4 Odiham 5 Hugo 6 Chaucer

7 Helots 9 Lysander 14 Copernicus 15 Ethelwulf 18 Cragside

19 Dickens 20 Tsunami 22 Murage 24 V-sign 26 Maya

Four winners of Storyland

C Skinner, Suffolk; C Greenwood, Lancashire; JM Foxall,

West Midlands; J Pratley, Worcestershire

4 City of northern India renowned for its fort

and an even more famous building (4)

5 A gruesome Dutch painting depicts the

brutal death of the __ ____ brothers in

1672 at the hands of supporters of William

of Orange (2,4)

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century with the creation of Creamware (9)

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imported from Spain and the Canary Islands (4)

8 Symbol of the peasantry on the red Soviet

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13 Last name of the Mormon leader who

founded Salt Lake City in 1847 (5)

15 Northumberland village, birthplace of the

railway pioneer George Stephenson (5)

16 The third wife of Emperor Claudius,

executed after going through a form of

marriage with Gaius Silius in an apparent

attempt to seize power in Rome (9)

19 Colourful American frontierswoman

remembered as ____ Jane (8)

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in the Swiss Protestant Reformation (7)

21 ____ of Flanders, queen to William the

Conqueror (7)

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timber merchant from Halifax, Nova Scotia (6)

26 Roman emperor who ended his life, and

his three-month reign, in AD 69 (4)

28 Name, formally adopted in 1935, of the

country known in the west as Persia (4)

29 Roman emperor who succeeded his

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Book

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£25

for 4 winners

What was the

married name

of this American

who became a

British MP? (31 across)

Down
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that produced no satisfactor y result for
either side (8)
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Mount Everest (1953) (4)
3 Burke’s ____, a famous work of British
genealogy, established in 1826 (7)