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Empire Dreamer

Robert Skidelsky Cecil Rhodes John Flint (Hutchinson, £4.75) Today one is praised for giving up empires, not founding them. Once Cecil Rhodes was a popular hero. Millions......

Popular Revolutionaries

Christopher Hill The English People and the English Revolution 1640-1649 Brian Manning (Heinemann £9.50) Nineteenth-century historians used to • speak of 'the English people' in......