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1888 to 1888 opens onto 1 life, no authored place stories yet, and 1 named historical windows.
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1825 to 1914
Reform, invention, nationalism, and new public expectations of leadership.
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1888 CE to 1888 CE
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1888 - Turin (Via Carlo Alberto 6, top floor)
The landlady has brought the lamp earlier than usual, and I keep the new pages turned face down on the table because if she sees how quickly they are accumulating she will write to my sister, and the printer must receive them before the family begins interfering again.
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1888 - Turin (Via Carlo Alberto 6, top floor)
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1888 - Turin (Via Carlo Alberto 6, top floor)
Friedrich Nietzsche stands at 1888 - Turin (Via Carlo Alberto 6, top floor), with connected routes through neighbouring lives, places, and historical pressure.
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1900 - Osborne House
Ceremony, ageing authority, and the slow conversion of a queen into institution.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Alone at Osborne House, an ageing queen confronts the cost of an empire built on duty and silence.
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1603 - Whitehall
faith-and-religious-conflict
A contrasting life shaped by faith and religious conflict.
In her final winter, a queen who gave everything to England asks whether the throne was worth what it destroyed.
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1897 - Friedrichsruh
Dismissal, founder grievance, and the comedy of inferior successors.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Dismissed, ageing, and deliberately sidelined, the architect of German unification watches his successors dismantle his work.
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1885 - Mount McGregor
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Mount McGregor, racing against cancer to finish his memoirs, a general and president faces his final campaign.
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1895 - London
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Confined to her rooms, no longer able to walk the wards, the founder of modern nursing reflects on what reform actually requires.
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1883 - Battle Creek, Michigan
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
With her body failing faster than her memory, a woman who walked out of slavery sets down what freedom actually looked like.
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1900 - Osborne House
Ceremony, ageing authority, and the slow conversion of a queen into institution.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Alone at Osborne House, an ageing queen confronts the cost of an empire built on duty and silence.
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1603 - Whitehall
faith-and-religious-conflict
A contrasting life shaped by faith and religious conflict.
In her final winter, a queen who gave everything to England asks whether the throne was worth what it destroyed.
Open this life
1897 - Friedrichsruh
Dismissal, founder grievance, and the comedy of inferior successors.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Dismissed, ageing, and deliberately sidelined, the architect of German unification watches his successors dismantle his work.
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1885 - Mount McGregor
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
At Mount McGregor, racing against cancer to finish his memoirs, a general and president faces his final campaign.
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