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5 A great Roman historian who encouraged the future emperor Claudius to study history (4) 7 A prestigious set of annual awards bestowed since 1901, funded by the legacy of an inventor and manufacturer of high explosives (5,5) 11 Anglo-Saxon ship-burial site in Suffolk, excavated in 1939 (6,3) 12 Mountain, location of a monastic community whose semi-autonomous status was confirmed by the Greek government in 1975 (5) 13/19 down British nurse: her execution by the Germans in 1915, for aiding escaping Allied soldiers in Belgium, made her a national heroine (5,6) 15 A castle in central Scotland, rebuilt in its present form by Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, in the 14th century (5) 16 ‘Mother’ Ann __ the Mancunian who in the 1770s took the Shaker religion from England to America (3) 17 Island of the Cyclades, important archaeological site and legendary birthplace of Artemis and Apollo (5) 18 Their empire’s final ruler was Atahualpa (5) 22 Organisation created by President Roosevelt in 1942, which developed into the CIA (3) 23 British poet, a Greek hero, whose body was refused burial in Westminster Abbey (5) 24 Morale-boosting gesture of the Second World War (1- 4) 25 This city proved to be the furthest point south of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s advance on London in 1745 (5) 26 Here, in May 1706, the Duke of Marlborough’s Anglo-Dutch forces defeated the French (9) 29 The Government ___ Scheme was introduced at the start of the Second World War, to move schoolchildren away from areas at high risk of bombing (10) 30 Land-locked country of south-east Asia, traditionally called the ‘Land of the Million Elephants’ (4)
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1 Victory at a battle here by the East India Company in 1757 was a pivotal step towards British rule in India ( 7) 2 Robert __, German physician, a founder of bacteriology (4) 3 See 14 down 4 Ruler who, following his abdication, was killed at Ekaterinburg, his remains finally receiving a state funeral in 1998 (8,2) 6 The levy that succeeded purchase tax after the UK joined the EEC (3) 8 Type of armour particularly effective in protecting medieval knights (5) 9 The Venerable Bede believed that the name of this Christian festival came from an Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility (6) 10 Austrian musicologist of the 19th century who catalogued Mozart’s works, giving them ‘K’ numbers (6) 14/3 down Term, popularised by Arnold Toynbee, applied to the change from an agrarian economy to one based on machine manufacturing (10,10) 15 Nickname of the British 7th Armoured Division, who fought Rommel’s troops in north Africa (6,4) 19 See 13 across 20 Thomas __, the editor notorious for his expurgated editions of Shakespeare in the early 19th century ( 7) 21 Term applied to the movement for the union of Cyprus with Greece (6) 23 Returning from exile after the Normandy landings, Charles de Gaulle gave his first speech in this newly liberated town, on 14 June 1944 (6) 27 The first major defeat of the Royalists in the English Civil War was at Marston __ (4) 28 Organisation that succeeded the Irish Volunteers (3)