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18 October 2016

31 other things you can sing to the tune of “Alexander Hamilton”

By Jonn Elledge

William Henry Harrison

Henry Campbell Bannerman

David William Cameron

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Jackie Lee Bouvier

William Jefferson Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Winston Spencer Churchill

Neil and Christine Hamilton

Ruth Eliza* Davidson (*Technically she’s Elizabeth, but tell me you don’t want to see this hip-hop musical)

Henry of Plantagenet

Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany

Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Maximilien de Robespierre

Camille Benoît Desmoulins

Alexander Romanov 

Gaius or Caligula 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Early novelist Samuel Richardson

Alan Charles Rusbridger

Shami Chakrabarti

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (You have to reach for it, but it’s there; I’ve been practicing for an hour)

Terry Vance Gilliam

Former Python Michael Palin

The West Wing‘s Aaron Sorkin

Wire creator David Simon

Bake Off, with Paul Hollywood

Norris McWhirter

The New Statesman‘s Laurie Penny

Emergency replacement bus

Lin Manuel Miranda

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