Noel Annan

Noel Annan

Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)

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October 7, 1999: The Camel at the Door

First Childhood by Lord Berners

A Distant Prospect by Lord Berners

Collected Tales and Fantasies by Lord Berners

Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory

May 6, 1999: Cat & Pig

Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills edited by Mary Soames

November 19, 1998: Dean of the Cold War

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World by James Chace

November 20, 1997: Blue Fingernails

Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse by Jessica Douglas-Home

September 25, 1997: Secret Sharers

The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash

April 24, 1997: Between the Acts

Bloomsbury Recalled by Quentin Bell

Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and his Clients by Jane Brown

Edwardians: London Life and Letters, 1900-1914 by John Paterson

On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World by Peter Stansky

June 6, 1996: The Abominable Emperor

An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Russia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm by Hannah Pakula

Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler: The von Moltke Family's Impact on German History by Otto Friedrich

The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany by John C.G. Röhl, translated by Terence F. Cole

Stauffenberg: A Family History 1950-1944 by Peter Hoffmann

October 19, 1995: The Best Years of Their Lives

Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American 'Neutrality' in World War II by Nicholas John Cull

London at War by Philip Ziegler

Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain 1942–1945 by David Reynolds

For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II by Robert Peters

June 22, 1995: Under the Victorian Bed

The Making of Victorian Sexuality by Michael Mason

Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld by Theo Aronson

March 23, 1995: The Fifth Man (letter)

March 2, 1995: Serving the KGB (letter)

January 12, 1995: The Fabulous Five

The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby by Genrikh Borovik, edited and with an introduction by Phillip Knightley

My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by their KGB Controller by Yuri Modin, by Jean-Charles Deniau, by Aguieszka Ziarek, translated by Anthony Roberts, Introduction by David Leitch

Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century by Anthony Cave Brown

July 14, 1994: Nazis and Resisters (letter)

January 13, 1994: The Age of Aggression

The Cultivation of Hatred by Peter Gay

Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe edited by Jürgen Kocka, edited by Allen Mitchell

October 7, 1993: The Hostess with the Mostest

Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour

April 8, 1993: How Wrong Was Churchill?

Churchill: Strategy and History by Tuvia Ben-Moshe

Bound in Duty: The Memoirs of a German Officer, 1932-45 by Alexander Stahlberg, translated by Patricia Campbell

October 22, 1992: An Unadmirable Admiral (letter)

May 14, 1992: Oh, What a Lovely War

Howards End a film directed by James Ivory, based on the novel by E.M. Forster

The Films of Merchant Ivory by Robert Emmet Long

March 26, 1992: Hello to All That

A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie

November 21, 1991: Folie à Trois

Politics, Religion and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu by Naomi B. Levine

April 25, 1991: The Art of the Matter

Learning to Look by John Pope-Hennessy

January 17, 1991: Mission Impossible!

D.H. Lawrence: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

December 6, 1990: The Death of 'Society'

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine

June 28, 1990: Was Leonard Woolf a Marxian? (letter)

March 29, 1990: The Best of Bloomsbury

Letters of Leonard Woolf edited by Frederic Spotts

February 15, 1990: The True Amateur

Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon by Michael Shelden

September 28, 1989: Oh What a Lovely War!

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell

Living Through the Blitz by Tom Harrisson

The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II by Richard Hough, by Denis Richards

May 18, 1989: Moscow & Harold Wilson (letter)

April 13, 1989: The Upper Class and the Underworld

Single Spies two new plays by Alan Bennett. a National Theatre production

Mask of Treachery by John Costello

The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby by Phillip Knightley

The Wilson Plot: How the Spycatchers and Their American Allies Tried to Overthrow the British Government by David Leigh

September 29, 1988: Gentlemen vs. Players

The Pride and the Fall: The Dream and Illusion of Britain as a Great Nation by Correlli Barnett

October 22, 1987: Et Tu, Anthony

Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by Barrie Penrose, by Simon Freeman

October 22, 1987: Leaks (letter)

September 24, 1987: Betrayal

Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright

The Secrets of the Service by Anthony Glees

November 20, 1986: In Bed with the Victorians

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Vol. II: The Tender Passion by Peter Gay

May 29, 1986: Underground Men

A Perfect Spy by John le Carré

February 13, 1986: The Right Historical Stuff

F.W. Maitland by G.R. Elton

August 15, 1985: High Spirits

Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1911–1925 edited by Dan H. Laurence

April 25, 1985: Paradise Enow!

With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward FitzGerald by Robert Bernard Martin

January 17, 1985: The Unmysterious East

A Passage to India a film, written and directed by David Lean

October 25, 1984: Life at the Top

King George V by Kenneth Rose

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards

July 19, 1984: Portrait of a Genius as a Young Man

John Maynard Keynes: 'New Wisdom for a New Age' by John Kenneth Galbraith, by Roy Jenkins, by Richard Wainwright, edited by Andrew Duff

John Maynard Keynes Vol. I: Hopes Betrayed, 1883–1920 by Robert Skidelsky

John Maynard Keynes: A Personal Biography of the Man Who Revolutionized Capitalism and the Way We Live by Charles H. Hession

Lydia Lopokova edited by Milo Keynes

March 1, 1984: Fable of the Poor

The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age by Gertrude Himmelfarb

October 27, 1983: Can Conservatism Work?

The Squandered Peace: The World, 1945-1975 by John Vaizey

Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties by Paul Johnson

The British Political Tradition, Vol. I: The Rise of Collectivism by W.H. Greenleaf

The British Political Tradition, Vol. II: The Ideological Heritage by W.H. Greenleaf

April 14, 1983: Trollope & Marriage (letter)

March 3, 1983: The Way They Lived Then

The English Terraced House by Stefan Muthesius

The Last Country Houses by Clive Aslet

February 3, 1983: How Should a Gent Behave?

The Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct by Shirley Robin Letwin

November 18, 1982: Dangerous Topic (letter)

October 7, 1982: Dissent on the Falklands (letter)

July 15, 1982: Mrs. Thatcher's Case

June 10, 1982: The Last Puritan

Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge selected and edited by John Bright-Holmes

Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge

February 4, 1982: All Souls Food

Words on the Air: Essays on Language, Manners, Morals, and Laws by John Sparrow

December 17, 1981: The Triumph of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan

September 24, 1981: Patriot

The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke by John Lehmann

April 16, 1981: Artist in Politics

George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick

November 20, 1980: The Sage of Sex

Havelock Ellis: A Biography by Phyllis Grosskurth

Eminent Edwardians by Piers Brendon

April 3, 1980: Grand Disillusions

The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl

July 19, 1979: Victorian Swish

For Queen and Country: Britain in the Victorian Age by Margaret Drabble

George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation by Alan Mintz

The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture by Bruce Haley

The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After by lan Gibson

June 28, 1979: Some Views of Mrs. Thatcher's Victory

November 9, 1978: While England Sleeps

The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister Volume III, Secretary of State for Social Services, 1968-1970 by Richard Crossman

April 20, 1978: Virginia Woolf Fever

The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of 'The Years' by Virginia Woolf, edited with an introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska

Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf edited by Mary Lyon

Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book edited by Alan Bell

Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf, edited by Jeanne Schulkind

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume I: 1915-1919 edited by Anne Olivier Bell

The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1923-1928 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann

A Marriage of True Minds: An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf by George Spater, by Ian Parsons

Bulletin of the New York Public Library: Virginia Woolf Issue

February 23, 1978: The View from the Inglenook

Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement 1860-1900 by Mark Girouard

October 27, 1977: The Shadow of the Great Betrayal

Ramsay MacDonald by David Marquand

September 29, 1977: Cutting Mosley (letter)

June 9, 1977: Undeviating (letter)

May 12, 1977: Hons and Huns

Unity Mitford: An Enquiry into Her Life and the Frivolity of Evil by David Pryce-Jones

February 5, 1976: The Possessed

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography by Christopher Sykes

Evelyn Waugh's Officers, Gentlemen & Rogues: The Fact Behind His Fiction by Gene D. Phillips

January 22, 1976: All in the Family

Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson

October 16, 1975: Puzzling (letter)

June 12, 1975: A Sort of Pilgrim

The Evening Colonnade by Cyril Connolly

November 28, 1974: Bring Back the Birch!

Swinburne: Portrait of a Poet by Philip Henderson

The Year of the Wombat: England, 1857 by Francis Watson

June 27, 1974: Carlyle, Our Hero?

The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism by Philip Rosenberg

March 21, 1974: The Myth of Roger Casement

Roger Casement by Brian Inglis

November 15, 1973: The Charms of H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells by Norman MacKenzie, by Jeanne MacKenzie

May 17, 1973: Right About Face

Wellington: Pillar of State by Elizabeth Longford

March 8, 1973: The Insider

The Age of Kipling edited by John Gross

February 8, 1973: Nancy

Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor by Christopher Sykes

November 30, 1972: Tough Queen

Queen Victoria: From Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort by Cecil Woodham-Smith

Queen Victoria's Little Wars by Byron Farwell

Victoria and the Victorians by Herbert Tingsten

Victoria's Heyday by J.B. Priestley

August 31, 1972: Sir Oswald, Leave the House!

My Life by Oswald Mosley

May 18, 1972: The Good Life

The Victorian Country House by Mark Girouard

March 23, 1972: Lloyd George (letter)

February 10, 1972: The Goat

Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, edited by A.J.P. Taylor

October 21, 1971: Love Story

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Albergo Empedocle and Other Writings by E.M. Forster, edited by George Thomson

July 22, 1971: How the Poor Live

The Unknown Mayhew by Eileen Yeo, by E.P. Thompson

June 17, 1971: Champion of Bohemia

The Saddest Story by Arthur Mizener

The Alien Protagonist of Ford Madox Ford by H. Robert Huntley

Your Mirror to My Times: The Selected Autobiographies and Impressions of Ford Madox Ford edited by Michael Killigrew

March 11, 1971: Pure in Heart

Dear Miss Weaver by Jane Lidderdale, by Mary Nicholson

February 11, 1971: Jack & Eddie (letter)

December 17, 1970: Magsmen, Macers, Gonophs, Footpads and Pimps

Victorian Studies in Scarlet by Richard D. Altick

The Anti-Society: An Account of the Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney

The Edwardians by J.B. Priestley

July 23, 1970: Tory Stories

Superior Person by Kenneth Rose

Baldwin by Keith Middlemas, by John Barnes

Memoirs of a Conservative: J.C.C. Davidson's Memoirs and Papers, 1910-1937 by Robert Rhodes James

Tides of Fortune, 1495-1955 by Harold Macmillan

February 12, 1970: Lost Pussies

The Worm in the Bud by Ronald Pearsall

The Empress Brown by Tom Cullen

Ermyntrude and Esmeralda by Lytton Strachey

September 11, 1969: Living Off Lit.

The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters by John Gross

July 10, 1969: End of the Line

Action This Day: Working With Churchill Memoirs by Lord Normanbrook and Others, edited and with an Introduction by Sir John Wheeler-Bennet

Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill by Ralph Martin

Churchill Revised: A Critical Assessment by A.J.P. Taylor. and, Others

Churchill as Historian by Maurice Ashley

Churchill in His Time (to be published on October 24 by Houghton Mifflin as Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries) by Brian Gardner

January 2, 1969: Heroine

George Eliot by Gordon Haight

November 21, 1968: Do-Gooder

Beatrice Webb by Kitty Muggeridge, by Ruth Adam

November 7, 1968: Character

The White-Garnett Letters edited by David Garnett

T.H. White by Sylvia Townsend Warner

June 6, 1968: A Very Queer Gentleman

Lytton Strachey, Vol. 1, The Unknown Years 1880-1910, Vol. 2, The Years of Achievement, 1910-1932 by Michael Holroyd

February 1, 1968: The Survivor

Downhill All The Way by Leonard Woolf

August 3, 1967: End of the Line

The Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson: Volume II: The War Years 1939-1945 edited by Nigel Nicolson

May 18, 1967: Victoria Lives and Is in the Stacks

Coaching Days of England edited by Paul Elek, edited by Elizabeth Elek, with a Commentary by Anthony Burgess

The Victorians by Joan Evans

Victorian England: Portrait of an Age by G.M. Young

The Triumph of Time: A Study of the Victorian Concepts of Time, History, Progress, Decadence by Jerome Buckley

Evolution & Society: A Study in Victorian Social Theory by John W. Burrow

April 6, 1967: Making It

Disraeli by Robert Blake

September 8, 1966: King for a Day

The Abdication of King Edward VIII by Lord Beaverbrook, edited by A.J.P. Taylor

Abdication by Brian Inglis

July 7, 1966: Amateur Statesmen

Winston Churchill: The Struggle For Survival 1940-1965 by Lord Moran

The Life of Lord Halifax by the Earl of Birkenhead

February 17, 1966: The Sweet Smell of Success

John Buchan by Janet Adam Smith

December 9, 1965: Historian of the People

English History: 1914-1945 by A.J.P. Taylor

November 11, 1965: This Unhappy Breed

British Politics in the Collectivist Age by Samuel Beer

July 1, 1965: Playing It Cool

Asquith by Roy Jenkins

June 17, 1965: A Long Distance Runner

A Cornishman at Oxford by A.L. Rowse

July 9, 1964: Lady Ott

Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Lady Ottoline Morrell, edited by Robert Gathorne-Hardy

Books by Noel Annan

The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (1999)
Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany (1995)
Our Age: English intellectuals between the World Wars (1990)
Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian (1984)
Leslie Stephen, His Thought and Character in relation To His Time (1977)