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A Liar, A Cheat And A Fantasist

Dennis O'Keeffe THE RED PRUSSIAN: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF KARL MARX by Leopold Schwarzschild Pickwick Books, £16.00 W hat intellectual status should we accord Karl Marx today?......

Actually Queen Anne Was Alive

Kevin Sharpe POLITICS, RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN ENGLAND, 1679-1742 by Geoffrey Holmes Hambledon, £24.00 ecently an eminent young historian R q am increasingly attracted to the......