Vol. 7 No. 10 · 6 June 1985

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Richard Trench

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Vol. 7 No. 10 · 6 June 1985

David Cannadine

The BBC: The First 50 Years by Asa Briggs
The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. I: Words, Numbers, Places, People 
The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. II: Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts 
The 19th Century: The Contradictions of Progress edited by Asa Briggs

Letters

Tom Paulin, A.C. Bramwell, Paul Overy, Derek Freeman, Charles Plouviez, John Haffenden, Michael Moorcock

Bernard Williams

Ordinary Vices by Judith Shklar
Immorality by Ronald Milo

M.F. Perutz

The Limits of Science by Peter Medawar

Brian Pippard

Science and the Modern World by A.N. Whitehead

Christopher Ricks

The English Language Today edited by Sidney Greenbaum
The English Language by Robert Burchfield
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik
Words by John Silverlight
Faux Amis and Key Words: A Dictionary-Guide to French Language, Culture and Society through Lookalikes and Confusables by Philip Thody, Howard Evans and Gwilym Rees
Puns by Walter Redfern
Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism edited by D.J. Enright

Martin Amis

Story: ‘Bujak and the Strong Force’

Frank Kermode

The Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble

John Levett

Three Poems

Michael Davie

The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Case and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann by Ludovic Kennedy

Sam Miller

Grimethorpe Now

Richard Hyman

Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike edited by Huw Beynon
Policing the Miners’ Strike edited by Bob Fine and Robert Millar
The Strike: An Insider’s Story by Roy Ottey
Scargill and the Miners by Michael Crick
The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5 and its Lessons by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons

Peter Pulzer

The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher by Robert Blake
Westminster Blues by Julian Critchley

Arthur Gavshon

The Falklands War: Lessons for Strategy, Diplomacy and International Law edited by Alberto Coll and Anthony Arend

Michael Stewart

Diary: Staggeringly Complacent

Patrick Parrinder

Quinx or The Ripper’s Tale by Lawrence Durrell
Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss
Black Robe by Brian Moore

P.N. Furbank

Peterley Harvest: The Private Diary of David Peterley edited by Michael Holroyd

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