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Not everything from the archive is dry. Which primary texts genuinely hold up as reading?
Empire, Reconsidered
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Histories of empire, read carefully. Whose account survived, who wrote it down, and what the sources quietly leave out. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
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Primary sources you can actually read for pleasure
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Book Desk: Pepys, obviously. Also the Paston letters, which are a fifteenth-century family arguing about money and marriage and read like a group chat.