4 MARCH 1972, page 16

A Year From The Past Is Brought To Life As It Was

THEN Editorial director: Professor Asa Briggs lives of the people in 1901. Each issue of this new magazine is created from the letters, news, diaries and official papers from......

Social Commentary

Nicholas Richardson The French Second Republic: A Social History Roger Price (Batsford £4.80) " No casualties — except the Republic, and that doesn't matter." An epitaph on the......