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This week's other great historical anniversary: the Hanoverian accession

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

The centenary of the start of the first world war is getting much more attention than the tricentenary of the accession of George I, which also falls this week. As far as I can tell, no new biographies of the first Hanoverian king are imminent, whereas books on the great war are pouring forth.

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