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A Long Tradition Of Dissent

Colin Welch WITNESS AGAINST THE BEAST: WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE MORAL LAW by E. P. Thompson CUP, £17.95, pp. 280 W hen this book swam into my ken, my first reaction was sour and......

No Longer Held In Common

C.H. Sisson FOR SERVICES RENDERED: AN ANTHOLOGY IN THANKSGIVING FOR THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER compiled by Norman Taylor Lutterworth Press, 17.50, pp. 192 T he dereliction of the......

Every Fair From Fair Sometime Declines

Caroline Moore THE CONVERT CARDINALS by David Newsome John Murray, £25, pp. 418 T his is a 'brilliantly double-harnessed biography' of Newman and Manning, as the jacket informs......