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Norman On Ireland: Two Views

Joseph Lee on a historiographical curiosity Two of the fundamental assumptions underlying the treatment of the Irish ques- tion in English historiography from Carlyle to W. A.......

Simon Raven On A Lord Of The Flies

This tastelessly named but rather good book is a potted history of physical filth as a factor in European and more particularly in British affairs. Filth or dirt, as Terence......