CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Allen
• Christopher Andrew
• Carole Angier
• John Bayley
• Alan Bold
• Peter Burke
• Angus Calder
• J. Arch Getty
• Lotte Hamburger
• Joseph Hamburger
• George Hughes
• Frank Kermode
• James MacGibbon
• Patrick O’Brian
• Peter Porter
• Conrad Russell
• Frederick Seidel
• Robert Stewart
• Charles Townshend

Contents

• Charles Townshend

  • God save Ulster: The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism by Steve Bruce
  • Children of Wrath: Political Violence in Northern Ireland by Michael MacDonald

• Letters
  Damian Grant, Frank Walbank, Anthony Polonsky, D.A.H. Evans, Nicolas Walter, Barbara Everett, John Lanchester, Alan Brien, Peter Anghelides, Barbara Belford, Susan Kullmann Puz

• Christopher Andrew

  • Sword and Shield: Soviet Intelligence and Security Apparatus by Jeffrey Richelson
  • The Red and the Blue: Intelligence, Treason and the University by Andrew Sinclair
  • Inside Stalin’s Secret Police: NKVD Politics 1936-39 by Robert Conquest
  • Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman

• J. Arch Getty

  • The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest

• George Hughes
  Poem: ‘Shops of the New Age’

• Frederick Seidel
  Poem: ‘Gethsemane’

• John Bayley

  • Gossip by Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • The Bonus of Laughter by Alan Pryce-Jones

• Frank Kermode

  • Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin by Barbara Everett

• Peter Porter

  • Other Passports: Poems 1958-1985 by Clive James

• Alan Bold
  Poem: ‘The Great Plant Collector’

• David Allen

  • The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham
  • Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of the ‘Natural History of Selborne’ by Richard Mabey
  • The Journals of Gilbert White 1751-1773: Vol. 1 edited by Francesca Greenoak
  • An Account of the Foxglove and its Medical Uses 1785-1985 by J.K. Aronson
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History edited by Michael Allaby

• Peter Burke

  • The Rome of Alexander VII: 1655-1667 by Richard Krautheimer
  • Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in 16th-century Siena by Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams

• Conrad Russell

  • War, Taxation and Rebellion in Early Tudor England: Henry VIII, Wolsey and the Amicable Grant of 1525 by G.W. Bernard
  • Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics and Reform 1500-1550 by Alistair Fox and John Guy
  • The Union of England and Scotland 1603-1608 by Bruce Galloway
  • Stuart England edited by Blair Worden

• Robert Stewart

  • Pillars of Government, and Other Essays on State and Society c.1770-c.1880 by Norman Gash
  • Sir Robert Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830 by Norman Gash

• Lotte Hamburger and Joseph Hamburger
  Contemplating adultery

• Angus Calder

  • A Century of the Scottish People: 1830-1950 by T.C. Smout
  • Living in Atholl: A Social History of the Estates 1685-1785 by Leah Leneman

• Patrick O’Brian

  • Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates by Robert Ritchie
  • Richard Knight’s Treasure! The True Story of his Extraordinary Quest for Captain Kidd’s Cache by Glenys Roberts

• James MacGibbon
  Diary

• Carole Angier
  ‘Heimat’ and History