Fate dogs the middle lane in Liberal Party history
A detailed review by Roy Douglas and a companion analysis from Bland and Watkins surveys the decline of Britain's Liberal Party. It weighs inevitability, wartime choices, and personality clashes as root causes, noting Gladstone era roots, key leadership missteps, and the party’s fragile survival into the 20th century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberal Party
Ray Bonelas
Sidgwick & Jackson
Britain
DL. Bhand
KW. Watkins
Michael Joser
Ladi
United Kingdom
Europe
Heath
Asquith
Lloyd George
Douglas
Labour Party
Machiavelli
Fortuna
Herbert Gladstone
Alingworth
Dr Douglas
Gladstone
Lord Roseberry
Sir William Harcourt
Campbell-Bannerman
Orpington
University of Shefield
Ireland
Vistas and plazas in modern design review
A compact critic surveys Yoshinobu Ashihara’s exterior design book, praising its teaching on scale and texture and its examples from European plazas to Japanese courtyards. The piece notes the author’s emphasis on architecture without a roof and urban living room plazas, with critiques of civic squares and street life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piazza del Campo
Siena
Yoshinobu Ashihara
Junzo Sakakura
Museum of Modern Arts
Kamakura
Halian Plaza
Komazewa Olympic Park
Sony
Tokyo
Musashino Art University
St Mark's Square
Venice
London
Civic Hill
Capital Hall
Cyclone Tales of Australia by Holthouse
A lively history of Australian cyclones from 1899 to 1970 detailing wrecks, drownings, rescues, and vivid human stories. It covers events like the 1899 Mahina disaster, the 1875 Gothenburg wreck, and Cyclone Ada, with portraits of figures such as Clement Wragge and Bernard OReilly, and notes a warning system as humanity's defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Australia
Koomar
Queensland
Heelar Holthouse
Australian
Bathurst Bay
Holthouse
Adelaide
Brisbane
Botanic Gardens
Gold Coast
Whitsunday Passage
Proserpine
Ada
Bowen
Wragge
New Zealand
Airlines of Australia
Stinson
City of Brisbane
Archer= field terminal
McPherson Ranges
Bernard Oreilly
Mr Holthouse
Declining Force and the Indian Police History
Review of Sir Percival Griffiths The History of the Indian Police tracing the force from the British era to 1947. Notes the police role in dacoity suppression suttee enforcement and Salt Laws protests, with praise for leadership and critique of limited reforms. Mentions police medals and notable officers amid postwar challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Percival Griffins
Ernest Benn
Sir Percival Griffiths
Corps D'Elite
India
Bengal
Indian Civil Service
Indian Police Service
Subcontinent
Rajendra Prasad
Eric Charles Handyside
John Paul Warburton
Warburton
Kipling
Scott Frederick Young
Griffiths
Police
ICS
Curzon Commission
The Maul and the Pearl Tree review
A critical survey of The Maul and the Pearl Tree by Critchley and James. The authors argue a case against John Williams in the 1811 East End murders, offering forensic archaeology and a dockland reconstruction, while noting unresolved questions and cautious verdicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Critchley
P. D._ James
Constable
OM de Quincey
Colin Wilson
East End
London
Thave
Jack the Ripper
John Williams
Wapping
Critchley
Home Office
James
Larage
Williams
Willams
Metropolitan Police
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crocker
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Fate
Roy Douglas
University of Surrey
Whicich
Meiji Shrine
Yukio Futagawa
By Russell Henderson
van Nostrand Reinhold
Ine
Japan
Department of Works
Woden Valley
Yoshinobu
Ashihara
The
Righy
Nature
New South Wales
Rigby
John Darbyshire
C. E. Sayers
Sofala
Turon
Thelma Hunter
Delhi Police Commission
Age of Illusion
Macmillan
Vernon Bogdanov
Robert Asky
Verity Hewitt
Queanbeyan
Crawford Street
By James Grieve
Westminster
Williame Poe
Jimms
Dalton
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