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“... social and political life, of which the most important is religion. All of this comes out well in Charles Covell’s scholarly, discriminating and curiously detached study of the Cambridge fogeys – Michael Oakeshott, John Casey, Maurice Cowling and Roger Scruton – with side-glances at Shirley Robin Letwin and the conservative potential in ...”

“... years. Other ‘minor’ figures we encounter here (Francis Meres, Robert Allott, William Covell) will repay investigation. Honigmann also provides a photo-facsimile edition of the Epigrammes, from a copy in the Bodleian Library. Another impeccable biography, also from the Revels Companion Library, is Mary Edmond’s Rare Sir William ...”