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2 October 1926. Historian, Jan Morris, was born in Clevedon, Somerset. Her most well known work is Pax Britannica, a study of the British Empire. She published under her birth name, James, until 1972, when she had gender reassignment, after transitioning from male to female. https://t.co/BTH8ZGgrGU
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Happy birthday to Welsh writer Jan Morris (October 2, 1926), author of the Pax Britannica trilogy and other works.
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Remembering Jan Morris by giving a big shoutout to Pax Britannica, her terrif 3 vol hist of India, pub between 1968-78 & written under her then name, James. Incidentally, in 1953 James Morris was a member of the 1st British expedition to climb Everest. She was one tough cookie https://t.co/09JzjCp7zF