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Blood-brother And King-maker

Mark Amory TRIBE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON by Tom Stacey Stacey International, 128 Kensington Church Street, London W8 4BH, Tel: 0207 221 7166 £19.95, pp.......

Talking To Some Purpose

Jane Ridley REFORM! THE FIGHT FOR THE 1832 REFORM ACT by Edward Pearce Cape. £20, pp. 343, ISBN 0224061992 N ineteenth-century British politics used to be the historian's bread......