Review
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‘A despot in the making’
Review of Mark Bonham Carter and Mark Pottle (eds.), Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914 (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1996).
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‘A sign of arrival…’
Review of Alan Mumford, Stabbed in the Front: Post-War General Elections Through Political Cartoons (University of Kent, 2001).
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When personal ambitions collide, mutual co-operation is precluded
Review of Giles Radice, Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey (Little, Brown & Co., 2002).
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His books were read
Review of Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre (Macmillan, 1991).
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The great chain which connects
Review of David Cannadine, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (Penguin, 2002).
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‘Parliament has never granted any important reform without being bullied’
Review of Martin Pugh, The Pankhursts (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2001).
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Too short a history
Review of Chris Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900-2001 (Palgrave, 2002).
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Too many numbers
Review of David Boyle, The Tyranny of Numbers: Why counting can’t make us happy (Harper Collins, 2001).
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‘And some have greatness thrust upon then’
Review of Roy Jenkins, Churchill (Macmillan, 2001).