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Scotland Counts For Something

John Jolliffe SCOTLAND : AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Douglas Dunn Harper Collins, £15.99, pp.304 D ouglas Dunn is a well-known poet from Fife, with a great gift for bringing his......

The War Of The Worlds

Tony Osman ASTRONOMER BY CHANCE by Bernard Lovell Macmillan, £18.99, pp. 380 T here is a belief, widespread at the moment, that scientific research can be judged by its economic......

No Palace Like Home

Brian Martin THE NABOBS AT HOME by Michael Edwardes Constable, £16.95, pp.208 F om 1757 to 1766, 59 per cent of the East India Company's employees died in India from disease or......