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Us & Them: Some Lessons From the Ancient Greeks

Llewelyn Morgan | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
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Llewelyn Morgan

What are we? English? Welsh? British? Are we bothered? Most of the time our "identity", national, religious or whatever, probably isn't at the top of our list of concerns. But sometimes circumstances come along which make us less secure in ourselves, less able to take our place in the world quite so much for granted.

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Remembering Mervyn Davies, Greatest of the Great Eights

Scott Jordan Harris | Posted 17.05.2012 | UK Sport
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Scott Jordan Harris

Mervyn Davies--a crucial member of the two finest rugby teams ever assembled, the 1971 and 1974 British Lions, and of the all-time XV of any rugby fan with sense--has died of cancer. To the special men who played with him in those legendary Lions sides, his death was not a surprise.

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