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but this makes the birds all the more precious to study and to protect

by Giovanni Bonello

It is thanks to these people that so many of the very early and very rare postcards have survived to the present day

Slavery: Malta At The Crossroads craft-items Imma min jista’ jtemm ħajjetOn 28 September 1871 an anonymous letter in a local newspaper complained that slaves from North Africa were being landed in Malta for later transfer to the Levant. That letter led to a parliamentary question in the House of Commons and open a can of worms for the British administration in Malta. Both the Foreign and Colonial Offices in London and the Malta governors had to seek a solution to the thorny problem. All efforts to stamp the practice,