Brian Harrison

Brian Harrison is a fellow and tutor in modern history and politics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of Drink and the Victorians, Separate Spheres and Peaceable Kingdom, and, with Colin Ford, of A Hundred Years Ago: Britain in the 1880s in Words and Photographs.

Letter

What Mrs Thatcher would do

25 May 1995

Ross McKibbin plays Santa Claus to Tony Blair (LRB, 25 May), but he fills Blair’s stocking with nothing more than a few airy balloons ‘repoliticisation’, ‘modernisation’, citizen ‘empowerment’) plus a rather grey parcel at the bottom, vaguely labelled ‘electoral reform’. There is of course a strong case for some sort of proportional representation in choosing representatives for the...

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Our Island Story: The New DNB

Stefan Collini, 20 January 2005

A dictionary is, first and foremost, a practical resource; its usability when subjected to a variety of everyday scholarly demands must be the chief test of its worth. But a work on the scale of

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