The party that missed its cue Lloyd George analysis review
Critical survey of Liberal decline and Lloyd George’s role from 1900s to WWII. Essays by A J P Taylor Cameron Hazlehurst and P E Clarke reexamine leadership, coalition politics and Irish policy with private papers and cabinet diaries. Hazlehurst emphasizes 1914 15 war council dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. P. Taylor
Lloyd George
Rar
Lloyd
Stanley Baldwin
Asquith
George
Hazlehurst
Britain
Belgium
Trevor Wilson
P. F. Clarke
Butterflies for the coffee table review
A critical notice on Charles McCubbin's Australian Butterflies, praising its life like watercolors and regional scenery but faulting numerous spelling errors and inconsistencies. The book covers sixty six ACT species, describes distribution and life history, and notes abundant illustrations, with some inaccuracies in captions and plant names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danaus Plexippous
Charles McCubbins
Queensland
McCubbin
Sirius Cove
Sydney
Daly River
Northern
Terris
Australia
Victoria
South Australia
Tasmania
Papiliono
Technicaae
The God of the Labyrinth review by Colin Wilson
A critical appraisal of Colin Wilsons novel The God of the Labyrinth. The narrator considers Wilsons shift from outsider philosophy to explicit sexual themes. The review criticizes the pacing and style, calling the detective plot thin and the philosophy didactic, while noting Wilsons writing power yet lack of genuine fiction talent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God OF the
Labyrinth
Colin Wilson
Rupert Hart-Davis
Wilson
Gerard Sorme
Esmond Donnelly
Esmond
Sorme
Bicentenary of Sir Walter Scott Stirs Edinburgh Pride
Tomorrow marks the birth bicentenary of Sir Walter Scott. In 1871 Edinburgh hosts grand celebrations with flags and pageantry as dignitaries and crowds honor the Scottish novelist. Ivan Turgenev lauds Scott and Byron as Russian literature’s founders though today Scott is a minority taste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Scott
Edinburgh
Scotland
Corn Exchange
Glad Stone
Brazil
Sir Walter
Ivan Turgenev
Scott
Byron
Russia
France
de Vigny
Merimee
Dumas
Balzac
Victor Hugo
Italy
Manzoni
Essay on Sir Walter Scott's enduring influence and shifting critique
The piece argues Scott's historical fiction endures despite modern doubt, praising vitality of character and realism while acknowledging flawed prose. It notes 30 years of criticism, later reevaluation by scholars, and Edgar Johnston's two volume bicentenary biography as a catalyst for renewed esteem of Scott in English literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancashire
C. P. Scott
Manchester Guardian
Winston Churchill
Scandinavia
Strindberg
Scott
Russia
Dostoevsky
Peddins
Lockhart
Edgar Johnson
Hamish Hamilton
Abortion Reform in Britain Book Review Analysis
A review of Abortion reform by Madeleine Sims and Keith Hindell discusses how the reform of Britain's abortion law addressed harm to working class women and children. The critique notes the book's balanced history, its timely relevance to Australia, and its caution against myths about abortion opponents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeleine Sims
Keith Hindell
Owen
Australia
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ncashire
P. E. Clarke
Cambridge Univr
Labour Party
By Graeme Osborne
Clarke
Liberal Party
Gladstone
Tories
Party of Wealth
Charles Meel Nelson
Keats
By Ted Edwards
New Guinea
Murrum
Poe
Lewis Eliot
Smond
Ually
the Phoenix
Leon Uris
Llewellyn Jones
Alan Reid
Puzo
the Godfather
Dakons
Fane Ald Nani
Maurice Dunlevy
Cott
By James Grieve
ZYG
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!