Walsingham’s Plumber
Patrick Collinson: John Bossy, 5 July 2001
Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story
by John Bossy.
Yale, 189 pp., £18.95, May 2001,0 300 08400 5 Show More
by John Bossy.
Yale, 189 pp., £18.95, May 2001,
“... events. But he has not turned Post-Modern. The events still matter more than the storyteller. E.H. Carr’s suggestion that it was necessary to study the historian before you begin to study the facts is here called ‘dreary’. ‘Carr’s facts were more interesting than Carr, and mine ... ”