December 1996 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Foreign Parts | History | Stage & Film Foreign Parts Tobias Jones One of the Best Places to Think About Things Moon Country: Further Reports from Iceland By Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell LR History Elisa Segrave Courageous Women Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millenia By Jo Ann Kay McNamara LR Kathryn Hughes Women who Denounced their Sisters as Witches The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations By Diane Purkiss LR Stage & Film Sheridan Morley Disappearing Act My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor By Alec Guinness
Tobias Jones One of the Best Places to Think About Things Moon Country: Further Reports from Iceland By Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell LR
Elisa Segrave Courageous Women Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millenia By Jo Ann Kay McNamara LR
Kathryn Hughes Women who Denounced their Sisters as Witches The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations By Diane Purkiss LR
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