Noel Annan (1916–2000) was a British military intelligence officer and scholar of European history. His works include Leslie Stephen and Our Age, Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany, and The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought.
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The Camel at the Door
October 7, 1999
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
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Cat & Pig
May 6, 1999
Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills
edited by Mary Soames
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Dean of the Cold War
November 19, 1998
Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World
by James Chace
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Blue Fingernails
November 20, 1997
Violet: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse by Jessica Douglas-Home
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Secret Sharers
September 25, 1997
The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash
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Between the Acts
April 24, 1997
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
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The Abominable Emperor
June 6, 1996
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
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The Best Years of Their Lives
October 19, 1995
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 19421945
by David Reynolds
For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II by Robert Peters
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Under the Victorian Bed
June 22, 1995
The Making of Victorian Sexuality by Michael Mason
Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld by Theo Aronson
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The Fifth Man
March 23, 1995
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Serving the KGB
March 2, 1995
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The Fabulous Five
January 12, 1995
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
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Nazis and Resisters
July 14, 1994
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The Age of Aggression
January 13, 1994
The Cultivation of Hatred by Peter Gay
Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe edited by Jürgen Kocka, edited by Allen Mitchell
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The Hostess with the Mostest
October 7, 1993
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour
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How Wrong Was Churchill?
April 8, 1993
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
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An Unadmirable Admiral
October 22, 1992
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Oh, What a Lovely War
May 14, 1992
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
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Hello to All That
March 26, 1992
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
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Folie à Trois
November 21, 1991
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
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The Art of the Matter
April 25, 1991
Learning to Look
by John Pope-Hennessy
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Mission Impossible!
January 17, 1991
D.H. Lawrence: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
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The Death of ‘Society’
December 6, 1990
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
by David Cannadine
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Was Leonard Woolf a Marxian?
June 28, 1990
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The Best of Bloomsbury
March 29, 1990
Letters of Leonard Woolf
edited by Frederic Spotts
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The True Amateur
February 15, 1990
Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon by Michael Shelden
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Oh What a Lovely War!
September 28, 1989
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
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Moscow & Harold Wilson
May 18, 1989
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The Upper Class and the Underworld
April 13, 1989
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
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Gentlemen vs. Players
September 29, 1988
The Pride and the Fall: The Dream and Illusion of Britain as a Great Nation by Correlli Barnett
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Leaks
October 22, 1987
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Et Tu, Anthony
October 22, 1987
Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt
by Barrie Penrose, by Simon Freeman
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Betrayal
September 24, 1987
Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright
The Secrets of the Service by Anthony Glees
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In Bed with the Victorians
November 20, 1986
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Vol. II: The Tender Passion by Peter Gay
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Underground Men
May 29, 1986
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
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The Right Historical Stuff
February 13, 1986
F.W. Maitland by G.R. Elton
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High Spirits
August 15, 1985
Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 19111925 edited by Dan H. Laurence
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Paradise Enow!
April 25, 1985
With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward FitzGerald by Robert Bernard Martin
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The Unmysterious East
January 17, 1985
A Passage to India a film, written and directed by David Lean
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Life at the Top
October 25, 1984
King George V by Kenneth Rose
Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards
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Portrait of a Genius as a Young Man
July 19, 1984
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, 18831920
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
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Fable of the Poor
March 1, 1984
The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Can Conservatism Work?
October 27, 1983
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
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Trollope & Marriage
April 14, 1983
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The Way They Lived Then
March 3, 1983
The English Terraced House
by Stefan Muthesius
The Last Country Houses by Clive Aslet
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How Should a Gent Behave?
February 3, 1983
The Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct by Shirley Robin Letwin
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Dangerous Topic
November 18, 1982
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Dissent on the Falklands
October 7, 1982
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Mrs. Thatcher’s Case
July 15, 1982
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The Last Puritan
June 10, 1982
Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge selected and edited by John Bright-Holmes
Chronicles of Wasted Time
by Malcolm Muggeridge
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All Souls Food
February 4, 1982
Words on the Air: Essays on Language, Manners, Morals, and Laws by John Sparrow
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The Triumph of Matthew Arnold
December 17, 1981
Matthew Arnold: A Life by Park Honan
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Patriot
September 24, 1981
The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke by John Lehmann
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Artist in Politics
April 16, 1981
George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick
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The Sage of Sex
November 20, 1980
Havelock Ellis: A Biography by Phyllis Grosskurth
Eminent Edwardians
by Piers Brendon
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Grand Disillusions
April 3, 1980
The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl
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Victorian Swish
July 19, 1979
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
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Some Views of Mrs. Thatcher’s Victory
June 28, 1979
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While England Sleeps
November 9, 1978
The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister Volume III, Secretary of State for Social Services, 1968-1970 by Richard Crossman
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Virginia Woolf Fever
April 20, 1978
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
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The View from the Inglenook
February 23, 1978
Sweetness and Light: The “Queen Anne” Movement 1860-1900
by Mark Girouard
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The Shadow of the Great Betrayal
October 27, 1977
Ramsay MacDonald by David Marquand
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Cutting Mosley
September 29, 1977
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Undeviating
June 9, 1977
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Hons and Huns
May 12, 1977
Unity Mitford: An Enquiry into Her Life and the Frivolity of Evil by David Pryce-Jones
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The Possessed
February 5, 1976
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography by Christopher Sykes
Evelyn Waugh’s Officers, Gentlemen & Rogues: The Fact Behind His Fiction by Gene D. Phillips
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All in the Family
January 22, 1976
Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson
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Puzzling
October 16, 1975
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A Sort of Pilgrim
June 12, 1975
The Evening Colonnade by Cyril Connolly
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Bring Back the Birch!
November 28, 1974
Swinburne: Portrait of a Poet by Philip Henderson
The Year of the Wombat: England, 1857 by Francis Watson
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Carlyle, Our Hero?
June 27, 1974
The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism
by Philip Rosenberg
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The Myth of Roger Casement
March 21, 1974
Roger Casement by Brian Inglis
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The Charms of H.G. Wells
November 15, 1973
H.G. Wells by Norman MacKenzie, by Jeanne MacKenzie
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Right About Face
May 17, 1973
Wellington: Pillar of State
by Elizabeth Longford
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The Insider
March 8, 1973
The Age of Kipling edited by John Gross
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Nancy
February 8, 1973
Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor by Christopher Sykes
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Tough Queen
November 30, 1972
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
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Sir Oswald, Leave the House!
August 31, 1972
My Life by Oswald Mosley
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The Good Life
May 18, 1972
The Victorian Country House
by Mark Girouard
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Lloyd George
March 23, 1972
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The Goat
February 10, 1972
Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, edited by A.J.P. Taylor
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Love Story
October 21, 1971
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Albergo Empedocle and Other Writings
by E.M. Forster, edited by George Thomson
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How the Poor Live
July 22, 1971
The Unknown Mayhew by Eileen Yeo, by E.P. Thompson
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Champion of Bohemia
June 17, 1971
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
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Pure in Heart
March 11, 1971
Dear Miss Weaver by Jane Lidderdale, by Mary Nicholson
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Jack & Eddie
February 11, 1971
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Magsmen, Macers, Gonophs, Footpads and Pimps
December 17, 1970
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
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Tory Stories
July 23, 1970
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
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Lost Pussies
February 12, 1970
The Worm in the Bud by Ronald Pearsall
The Empress Brown by Tom Cullen
Ermyntrude and Esmeralda by Lytton Strachey
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Living Off Lit.
September 11, 1969
The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters by John Gross
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End of the Line
July 10, 1969
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
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Heroine
January 2, 1969
George Eliot by Gordon Haight
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Do-Gooder
November 21, 1968
Beatrice Webb by Kitty Muggeridge, by Ruth Adam
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Character
November 7, 1968
The White-Garnett Letters edited by David Garnett
T.H. White by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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A Very Queer Gentleman
June 6, 1968
Lytton Strachey, Vol. 1, The Unknown Years 1880-1910, Vol. 2, The Years of Achievement, 1910-1932 by Michael Holroyd
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The Survivor
February 1, 1968
Downhill All The Way by Leonard Woolf
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End of the Line
August 3, 1967
The Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson: Volume II: The War Years 1939-1945 edited by Nigel Nicolson
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Victoria Lives and Is in the Stacks
May 18, 1967
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
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Making It
April 6, 1967
Disraeli by Robert Blake
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King for a Day
September 8, 1966
The Abdication of King Edward VIII by Lord Beaverbrook, edited by A.J.P. Taylor
Abdication by Brian Inglis
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Amateur Statesmen
July 7, 1966
Winston Churchill: The Struggle For Survival 1940-1965 by Lord Moran
The Life of Lord Halifax by the Earl of Birkenhead
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The Sweet Smell of Success
February 17, 1966
John Buchan by Janet Adam Smith
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Historian of the People
December 9, 1965
English History: 1914-1945 by A.J.P. Taylor
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This Unhappy Breed
November 11, 1965
British Politics in the Collectivist Age by Samuel Beer
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Playing It Cool
July 1, 1965
Asquith by Roy Jenkins
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A Long Distance Runner
June 17, 1965
A Cornishman at Oxford by A.L. Rowse
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Lady Ott
July 9, 1964
Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell by Lady Ottoline Morrell, edited by Robert Gathorne-Hardy