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The article explores the youthful patriotism and vigorous activism of Cesca Chenevix Trench based on her letters, sketches, personal papers and diary of the years 1913 to 1916. Also described is how a girl from a leading Anglo-Irish Protestant family, brought up in a vicarage in Kent, adopted the identity of an Irish Irelander and became a staunch nationalist.

This article presents news briefs regarding issues of history. Archaeologists in Pakistan are calling for a complete ban on the use of historical sites for private functions. The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to allow greater access to the papers of former presidents. Geneticists working on DNA data from across the British Isles are presenting the theory that the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland are more closely related than previously thought.