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The late, great educator, philosopher and scholar Marshall McLuhan achieved much during his lifetime, but will be best remembered for popularising the term ‘global village’ back in the 1960s.

The Canadian professor was perhaps a little ahead of his time in realising that electronic mass media would eventually break down the barriers of time and distance that had thus far inhibited global communication from reaching its full potential.

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From Shakespeare and Dickens, to Orwell and Wilde; the English-speaking world has produced some of the finest and most celebrated writers ever known.

Indeed, William Shakespeare’s work alone has been read, performed and analysed by millions of people across the globe and has been translated into every major living language – and some minor ones too, including Albanian, Yakut and even Zulu.

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