18 MAY 1996, page 38

Being Beastly To The Germs

Anthony Daniels PLAGUES: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY AND FUTURE by Christopher Wills HarperCollins, £20, pp. 324 We all love a good plague, so long as it is far enough away, long......

Goodness Had Little To Do With It

Alan Watkins TICKLE THE PUBLIC: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE POPULAR PRESS by Matthew Engel Gollancz, £20, pp. 352 F r some years now Mr Engel has been one of the most consistently......

A Hesitant, Reluctant Martyr

C.D.C. Armstrong THOMAS CRANMER by Diarmaid MacCulloch Yale University Press, £25.95, pp. 692 F ittingly for one who lived in a time of religious conflict, Thomas Cranmer has......