"It was a question of seeing a live game, " said Redshaw, the author of an English-language history of the club.

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An unfortunate consequence of relying on English-language documents is that the local population appears for much of this history as a series of administrative inconveniences: a dock strike here, a cholera epidemic there, that kind of thing.

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Conversations about schoolwork take on new zest when, rather than a specific work of literature or history, you are wrestling with the English language itself, sometimes pinned down by an immigrant youth, and sometimes throwing and clobbering the youth instead.

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Alongside sciences, the English Baccalaureate comprises English, maths and humanities - which is a choice of history or geography - and a language.

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The introduction of the English Baccalaureate - which will be awarded to pupils gaining good GCSE passes in maths, English, two science subjects, a language and history or geography - would increase the uptake of history, he added.

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