August 1991 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Filth | Oppression | Letter from Jerusalem | Poetry Filth Andrew Billen The Reason Why Counts Became Earls Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English By Geoffrey Hughes LR Oppression Sean Gabb Honour Thy Father Hitler's Children By Gerald Posner LR George Stern Ills of the NHS? Examining Doctors: Medicine in the 1990s By Donald Gould LR Letter from Jerusalem Natasha Fairweather Letter From Jerusalem LR Poetry Jeremy Reed Scarlet Honey Elemental Odes By Pablo Neruda (Translated by Margaret Sayers Pedan [ed]) LR
Andrew Billen The Reason Why Counts Became Earls Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English By Geoffrey Hughes LR
Jeremy Reed Scarlet Honey Elemental Odes By Pablo Neruda (Translated by Margaret Sayers Pedan [ed]) LR
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