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| | Amazon.com: British Commemoratives: Royalty, Politics, War and Sport: Books: Lincoln Hallinan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) |
 | | In Britain (as in other parts of the world) commemorative items are issued to honor important historical events?elections, royal visits, jubilees, sporting events, battles, deaths of monarchs, royal weddings, and subsequent births of heirs. |
 | | Not one of the hottest collectibles, British memorabilia nonetheless affords Anglophiles great fun as they seek out tea tins, plates, cups with saucers, special issues of magazines, and other articles commemorating national events and individuals, including royal births, deaths, marriages, and coronations, as well as achievements of sports figures and war heroes. |
 | | Through this excellently informative text, he narrates a general course in British history, particularly monarchical, into which he has woven discussions of extant memorabilia. |
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