Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Campbell
• Peter Clarke
• Michael Dobson
• P.N. Furbank
• Mary Hawthorne
• Tobias Hill
• Hugh Honour
• R.W. Johnson
• Thomas Powers
• Jonathan Rée
• Lorna Scott Fox
• John Sturrock
• Keith Thomas
• E.S. Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• R.W. Johnson

  • Lord Hailsham: A Life by Geoffrey Lewis

• Letters
  Russell Seitz, Michael Dobson, Keith Flett, R. V. Ward, Leonard Pepper, Helene Solheim, Alan Malachowski, Reviel Netz, John Black, Ruben Mendez

• Tobias Hill
  Poem: ‘The Pilot in Winter’

• Keith Thomas

  • The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home by Peter Mandler
  • Ancient as the Hills by James Lees-Milne
  • The Fate of the English Country House by David Littlejohn

• Hugh Honour

  • A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800 compiled by John Ingamells

• E.S. Turner

  • ‘Punch’: The Lively Youth of a British Institution, 1841-51 by Richard Altick

• Jonathan Rée

  • Truth: A History by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

• Peter Clarke

  • Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals edited by Niall Ferguson

• Thomas Powers

  • The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow
  • ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

• John Sturrock

  • Victor Hugo by Graham Robb

• Peter Campbell

  • The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun by Angelica Goodden

• Michael Wood

  • Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins
  • The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwartz

• Michael Dobson

  • The Origins of English Nonsense by Noel Malcolm

• Mary Hawthorne
  A Traveller in Residence

• Lorna Scott Fox
  Diary

• P.N. Furbank

  • The Treasure Chest by Johann Peter Hebel, translated by John Hibberd