I am not a great lover of research, much as I adore libraries I don’t like sitting in them, but there are a couple of subjects that I really have investigated very fully. 1) The Thompson-Bywaters case of 1922, on which I spent weeks in a sealed room (slightly alarming) at the National Archives in Kew, reading files that had been held under the 100-year …
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