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Hilary Mantel

TALKING POLITICS

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A Place of Greater Safety

The crowd isn't really a presence in the tudor story. An it is a bit asf there's a performative aspect to it, but it's highly controlled. And something breaks loose with the birth of modern politics at the end of ethe eighteenth century. How when you write about that, how does it change? It having this extra character in the story, which essentially is the publicThere isn't that kind of public in the t Tudor world?" Yes, i of course. I wrote a place of greater safety a long, long time ago, long before the tudens were in my mind," he says.

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