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Britain’s Catholic emancipation

Antonia Fraser discusses her new book The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829

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Acclaimed historian and author Antonia Fraser joins us to discuss her new book The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829.

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(Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare. Portrait of Christian Cole: ©The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, G. A. Oxon 4° 417, fol. 980)
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