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Rupert Murdoch and me: eminent historian tells of Middle East road trip

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Saturday, 2 June 2012 (on June 2, 2012)
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Historian Asa Briggs tells how he travelled from Istanbul to Cairo with the future tycoon

Asa Briggs, the historian and founder vice chancellor of Sussex University, has revealed that in 1952 he..


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