The Black Death
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Philip Ziegler
Philip Sandeman Ziegler (born 24 December 1929) is a prominent British biographer and historian.
Ziegler was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, and went with the school when it merged with Summer Fields School Oxford. He was afterwards at Eton College and New College, Oxford. He earned a...
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