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Who Owns England, Counting Landowners as a Political Act from Domesday to the Land Reformers
From the Norman inquest that told kings which barons to fear to the figure of two thousand persons holding forty million acres, every count of English landowners became a weapon, and the argument slowly moved from who owns the land to who makes its value.
Goblins in the Nursery, Where a Child's Fear of the Dark Comes From
Did nurses' goblin stories put the fear of the dark into children, or did children bring it with them? From Locke to Chesterton, the quarrel over the nursery tale ended not with a winner but with a new line: fear used as a threat against fear handed over as a game.
