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Reviews the book 'The Brandon Papers,' by Quentin Bell.

The article reviews the book "Life in Medieval Landscapes: People and Places in the Middle Ages: Papers in Memory of H. S. A. Fox," edited by Sam Turner and Bob Silvester.

Reviews the book `Lord Beaverbrook: A Life,' by Anne Chrisholm and Michael Davie. A biography of British press baron Lord Beaverbrook.

Reviews the book 'The Papers of Benjamin Franklin,' vol. 20, 'January 1 through December 31, 1773,' edited by William B. Willcox.

Reviews the book `The Effectiveness of Franchise Exhibitions in the United Kingdom,' by P. Chapman, V. Mills and J. Stanworth.

Alan Hollinghurst's 'The Line of Beauty' explores the social spectrum of 1980s Britain, with a focused account on the gay life in London. The novel is a coming out story, which observes the social milieu and psychological nuances under Thatcherism. The paper explores the presence of James as a figure in the fictional world of the book because of Nick's studies. Hollinghurst uses Henry James as a literary agent in order to bring about the moral ambiguities of the characters. This paper examines how Hollinghurst employs the Jamesian presence through the literary techniques of ironies and implications. Alan Hollinghurst has seemingly built a bridge between a contemporary novel and a canonical figure, Henry James, who is growingly recognized as the author of "the gender confusion". This paper, therefore, contributes to gender issues and the Jamesian legacy in contemporary fiction, which enriches the literary heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain" by Leah Price.

A review of the book "Modern Typography in Britain: Graphic Design, Politics & Society " edited by Paul Stiff is presented.

In her long poem Solitude (1938) Vita Sackville-West explores the contrast between Nature and books and between Nature and the Christian God as she questions the purpose of life and suffering. While writing in solitude about solitude, the writer is connected to a vast community of other writers and readers. In this paper I show how Sackville-West uses classical allusions as a bridge between pagan Nature and Christian English literary history. From contemporary documents, especially her letters to Virginia Woolf, we can also see how Sackville-West kept an awkward balance in her own life between shyness and desire for connection with others which is reflected in her project of writing new verse in essentially traditional forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the participation of a midget and the conceptualization of human dwarfism within the context of the traveling circus. In the circus program the midget is included in the clowning acts and clowning provides a general paradigm for the conceptualization of dwarfism in the British circus tradition. Clowning itself is included, in one form or another, in all British circus productions. Although clowns constitute a traditional emblem of circus and often appear as a central theme on circus posters, the situation for clowning and clowns themselves in Britain is poor. A number of stock characters provide the traditional models for clowns in Great Britain. In circus clowning, as carried on in Britain in the late 1970s, the fool and the midget performed together. Both the fool and the midget embody a rationalized, secular anxieties of the society. Circus drama seems not only to invoke the existential anxieties of a rationalized, played reality, but also directs them. The notions of self and of human nature by the public seem to rebound through the exclusion of a midget from the play of a clown. But the existential threat, the anxieties which the circus midget gives form to are not eliminated, they are rather both distanced and redefined. It is not only within the performance of the circus show that the discourse of dwarfism in circus is taking place but also in the own offstage lives of performers, their encounters with the public outside the ring, and in daily life in town.

Reviews the book "British Plant Communities. Volume 3. Grasslands and Montane Communities," by J.S. Rodwell.

The article reviews the book "Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters," by Kate Thomas.

The article reviews the book "Money Over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History," by Forrest H. Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood.

The article reviews the book "A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps," by Chris West.

A review of the book "James Young Simpson: Lad O Pairts," by Alison Nuttall and Rosemary Mander is presented.

The article reviews the book "Profits and Stability of Monopoly," by M. A. Utton.

A review of the book "London Uprising: Fifty Fashion Designers, One City," edited by Tania Fares and Sarah Mower, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Real Money and Romanticism," by Matthew Rowlinson.

Any state seeking to apply a CCA-style model to the climate challenge should be advised to carefully factor in consideration of what are likely to be complex multitiered capacities and constraints that may arise where a blanket national-level regime is interconnected with a state's particular subnational governance environment (p.126). Meanwhile, CCA is not isolated but rather linked to EU's legal efforts such as some Directives in the sphere of environmental governance (and other areas of governance) which have adopted similar approaches to the CCA. The authors argue that the CCA and its mechanisms provide insights and lessons for governance in other countries or international institutions to promote similar practices in their jurisdictions. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "John Rodker's Ovid Press: A Bibliographical History," by Gerald W. Cloud, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Publishing, Politics, & Culture: The King’s Printers in the Reign of James I and VI," by Graham Rees and Maria Wakely.

D E Moggridge's perhaps too exhaustive biography is examined and some questions are raised relative to Keynes' views on theory and their source, and his views on German reparations and whether Britain should have accepted the original provisions of the agreement providing for establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'The Transformation of England: Essays in the Economic and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century,' by Peter Mathias.

The article reviews the book "An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice Under British Rule, 1870-1935," by Martin J. Wiener.

The article reviews the book "The Financial Crisis and Federal Reserve Policy," by Lloyd B. Thomas.

The article reviews the book "Understanding the British Empire," by Ronald Hyam.

The article reviews the book "The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective" by Robert C. Allen.

A review of the book "The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation & British Society at the End of Slavery," by Nicholas Draper is presented.

The article reviews the book "Fit Men Wanted: Original Posters from the Home Front."

A review of the book "Parties at War: Political Organization in Second World War Britain," by Andrew Thorpe is presented.

A review of the book "Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption & Civil Society in Modern Britain," by Frank Trentmann is presented.