CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Caute
• Julian Critchley
• Nell Dunn
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Peter Jenkins
• D.A.N. Jones
• Paul Kennedy
• John Lloyd
• Sarah Maguire
• Nicholas Penny
• John Pym
• Christopher Ricks
• Peter Riddell
• Edward Said
• Carol Singh
• Raymond Williams

Contents

• Peter Jenkins

  • How Britain votes by Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and John Curtice
  • Partnership of Principle by Roy Jenkins
  • The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Britain by Ian Bradley
  • Report from the Select Committee on Overseas Trade, House of Lords

• Letters
  Terence Hawkes, Richard Wollheim, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, William LeFanu, Patricia Craig, Ian Hamilton, John May, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Julian Critchley writes about the Admirable Carrington

  • Carrington: A Life and a Policy by Patrick Cosgrave
  • Thatcher: The First Term by Patrick Cosgrave
  • Viva Britannia: Mrs Thatcher’s Britain by Paolo Filo della Torre

• John Lloyd

  • The Miners’ Strike by Geoffrey Goodman
  • Strike: Thatcher, Scargill and the Miners by Peter Wilsher, Donald Macintyre and Michael Jones

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Capitalism and Social Democracy by Adam Przeworksi

• Peter Riddell on the progress of a Parliamentary reform

  • The New Select Committees: A Study of the 1979 Reforms edited by Gavin Drewry
  • Commons Select Committees: Catalysts for Progress? edited by Dermot Englefield
  • British Government and the Constitution: Text, Cases and Materials by Colin Turpin
  • Parliament in the 1980s edited by Philip Norton

• David Caute

  • Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe by Terence Ranger
  • Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe by David Lan

• Paul Kennedy

  • No Longer an Island: Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909 by Alfred Gollin

• Sarah Maguire
  Poem: ‘Spilt Milk’

• John Pym

  • Money into Light by John Boorman

• Nell Dunn

  • Everything to lose: Diaries 1945-1960 by Frances Partridge

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
  • Loyalties by Raymond Williams
  • Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West
  • The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J.L. Carr
  • The Bone People by Keri Hulme

• Raymond Williams

  • By the Open Sea by August Strindberg, translated by Mary Sandbach
  • August Strindberg by Olof Lagercrantz, translated by Anselm Hollo
  • Strindberg: A Biography by Michael Meyer

• Edward Said

  • The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway

• Christopher Ricks

  • Gentlemen in England by A.N. Wilson

• Carol Singh
  Diary

• Nicholas Penny

  • Patterns of Intention by Michael Baxandall
  • The Enigma of Piero by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper