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Fine Dust

Christopher Neve The England of Eric Ravilious Freda Constable with Sue Simon (Scolar Press £18.50) R avilious could whistle in thirds. He whistled in thirds while painting. By......

A Plague On Both Your Houses

A. L. Rowse The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 R. Hutton (Longman £12) A great deal of historical writing still goes into the Civil War and its origins, much of it from the......