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Gladstone Bag

Paul Smith The Gladstones: A Family Biography 1764-1851 S. G. Checkland (CUP £5.00) Professor Checkland has had three good ideas, not altogether easy to implement......

Merchant Of Death

Clive Trebilcock The Great Gun-maker: The Life of Lord Armstrong. David Dougan (Frank Graham £2.50) Gun-makers in the late nineteenth century were the greatest industrialists of......