1 MAY 1971, page 18

Patrick Wormald On Rome

Rome in the Dark Ages Peter Llewellyn (Faber £2.75) Perhaps only Thomas Hodgkin, since Gib- bon, has seriously concerned himself with the most obscure and least glamorous period......

Leslie Halliwell On British Movies

A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence Raymond Durgnat (Faber £3.00) Since that still-recent time when the cinema was reluctantly but irrevocably......