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Two Ways Of Writing History

Conrad Russell CATHOLICS, ANGLICANS AND PURITANS: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS by Hugh Trevor-Roper Secker & Warburg, f17.50 POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CIVIL WAR IN WARWICKSHIRE,......

Books

A taste of Flann Colin Welch FLANN O'BRIEN: AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY by Peter Costello and Peter van de Kamp Bloomsbury, (14.95 L ike Whitman, Flann O'Brien con- tained......