Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Christopher Allsopp
• Svetlana Alpers
• Humphrey Carpenter
• Jon Elster
• Ruth Fainlight
• Diana Gould
• Ian Hamilton
• Harold Hancock
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Michael Holroyd
• Charles Hope
• Ted Hughes
• Stephen Koss
• Keith Kyle
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Brian Oxley
• Roy Porter
• Paul Seabright

Contents

• Stephen Koss

  • The Crawford Papers: The Journals of David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, during the Years 1892 to 1940 edited by John Vincent

• Letters
  Robert Vanderbilt, Bernard Buschendorf, Nicolas Walter, J.V. Stevenson, Paul Fairey, R.T.B. Langhorne, Rover, Gary Hill

• Five issues ago Michael Stewart expressed his hostility to Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike. Now Harold Hancock of Grimethorpe, who has taken part in the strike, says what he thinks

• Michael Holroyd
  Who was David Peterley?

• Paul Seabright

  • Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay by Mary Midgley

• Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘My Fuchsia’

• Jon Elster

  • The Politics of Socialism: An Essay in Political Theory by John Dunn

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • An Open Elite? England 1540-1880 by Lawrence Stone and Jeanne Fawtier Stone

• Roy Porter

  • Science and Medicine in France: The Emergence of Experimental Physiology 1790-1855 by John Lesch
  • Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France by Dorinda Outram

• Diana Gould

  • Another Story: Women and the Falklands War by Jean Carr, introduced by Jane Ewart-Biggs

• Brian Oxley
  Poem: ‘Adams’ Prophecy’

• Keith Kyle

  • The British Empire in the Middle East 1945-1951 by William Roger Louis

• Christopher Allsopp

  • The Role and Limits of Government: Essay in Political Economy by Samuel Brittan

• Ted Hughes
  Two Poems

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Social Scientist as Innovator by Michael Young
  • Revolution from Within: Co-operatives and Co-operation in British Industry by Michael Young and Marianne Rigge
  • Dilemmas of Liberal Democracies: Studies in Fred Hirsch’s ‘Social Limits to Growth’ edited by Adrian Ellis and Krishan Kumar

• Charles Hope

  • The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg

• Svetlana Alpers

  • Masterpieces of 17th-Century Dutch Genre Painting: Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Royal Academy
  • The Golden Age: Dutch Painters of the 17th Century by Bob Haak

• Ian Hamilton
  Diary

• Humphrey Carpenter

  • Peeping Tom by Howard Jacobson
  • Watson’s Apology by Beryl Bainbridge
  • The Foreigner by David Plante