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In 1600 Muhammad al-Annuri arrived in England, as the Moroccan ambassador, to propose an Anglo-Moroccan alliance. Shakespeare probably started writing Othello six months later

Gloriana and the Sultan — England’s unlikely alliance

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The idea for a mechanical cock was never going to work. In 1595 the English ambassador to Constantinople, Edward Barton,…

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