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Clare Mchugh

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The lost 1930s masterpiece warning of Nazi horrors

Published years before WW2, Sally Carson's prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and remains relevant today. ...

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Clare Mchugh

The truth about Henry VIII's right-hand man

With her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as TV adaptation Wolf Hall: The...

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Clare Mchugh

The truth about America's most vilified First Lady

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two new plays about her, she is...

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Clare Mchugh