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  1. Cambridge Uni get a new Regius Professor. Will join, among others, Richard Evans (Modern History) http://bit.ly/8QUV00
  2. The Times Archive Blog has a post on Victorian body snatching, in light of the recent arrests in Peru http://bit.ly/6PW5KA
  3. New edition of Collins’s ‘The State in Early Modern France’ – acclaimed, and challenges traditional views on absolutism http://bit.ly/1Tuwgk
  4. A new installation at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum asks 101 questions about the earth’s sustainability - until 29 Nov http://bit.ly/43f8p
  5. Did you know that Borders will now ship, for free, any book that is out of stock in store? http://bit.ly/22Kqf
  6. The smell of old books has been analysed by scientists - grass and vanilla apparently! http://bit.ly/2uPhfS
  7. Austin and Dickens – as rated by the new A Level marking computer! http://bit.ly/Egomc
  8. A Friday treat! Get a special 20% off over 60 Empire studies books http://bit.ly/3SwOyc
  9. Prof Sir Christopher Frayling’s 2nd lecture 2nite at Cambridge Uni - on the richness in European art in the middle years http://bit.ly/1BlXB
  10. Prof Sir Christopher Frayling will speak at Cambridge Uni tonight about the 19th Cen. relationship btwn art and religion http://bit.ly/1BlXB
  11. A Nazi at Harvard - Anthony Grafton’s review of ‘The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower’ for the NYR blog http://bit.ly/2RCIVB
  12. 'New-look Ashmolean is Britain's museum of the decade' says Peter Furtado on History Today http://bit.ly/4vBtMu
  13. A new history of the Beatles’ story – the men and their music – see The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles http://bit.ly/20QgKf
  14. RT @hallnjean @NS_Archives @ARMA_INT: 800-year-old Bamboo Shipment Records Recovered http://bit.ly/2nMgW4
  15. Enjoyed Radio 4's In Our Time this morning - the 16th century Antibaptist Siege of Munster was discussed http://bit.ly/B3Act
  16. How are indie bookshops weathering the current financial and book-buying climate? Bookseller article at http://bit.ly/4vT3JN
  17. The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – Jan Palmowski helps explain how the GDR imploded http://bit.ly/iYoEl
  18. See the NY Times’s engaging and informed piece on a new history of medical technology book http://bit.ly/3l5Biq
  19. Darwin and the Germans – a talk from tonight’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas programme http://bit.ly/oSf4Q
  20. Happy 30th birthday to the London Review of Books http://bit.ly/12SJzo