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Best Of Notts

A. L. Rowse Nottinghamshire: A Shell Guide Henry Thorold (Faber & Faber £8.50) w hat a marvellous series the Shell Guides have been, opening our eyes to all sorts of visual......

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Stan Gebler Davies The Inquisition: the Hammer of Heresy Edward Burman (The Aquarian Press £9.95) I t is just as well the Church of England has not got an Inquisition available......

The New Pecking Order

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