21 MARCH 1969, page 22

Swing Left

CHARLES STUART Captain Swing E. J. Hobsbawm and George Rudd (Lawrence and Wishart 70s) Here is a substantial, costly and vigorous work on the agrarian riots of 1830 which the......

Curate's Egg

G. D. RAMSAY The Golden Century : Europe 1598-1715 Maurice Ashley (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 63s) To survey a whole epoch of history is a trickier task than it was in our......