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Scotland The Brave

IN my young days, Scottish primary schools ladled out Scottish history in enormous dollops. It was not the kind of history that would have gratified Karl Marx, but we knew about......

Merseyside

LIVERPOOL is so very much itself; so very much a reflection of its people: haphazard, tough , humorous-natured, elegant, ugly and lovely. Quentin Hughes's volume, which is......

Outsiders Two

Thought and Change. By Ernest Gellner. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 30s.) EACH of these books is presented as the latest by the author of an earlier notoriety. Ernest Gellner, now......