May 2001 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Essays | Women | Biography | History | Philosophy | General | Fiction Essays Simon Heffer Does the Public Get What it Deserves? Does the Public Get What it Deserves? LR Women John Adamson Ahead Of Her Time Marie Antoinette: The Journey By Antonia Fraser LR Biography Robert Nye The Dark Side of The Stratford Man Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life By Katherine Duncan-Jones LR John Grigg Politics Was in Her Blood Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi By Katherine Frank LR Gerald Butt He Loved a Slave Girl Henry Salt: Artist, Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist By Deborah Manley & Peta Ree LR History Felipe Fernandez-Armesto They Mistook Kenya for the Home Counties Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire By David Cannadine LR Philosophy Jane O'Grady Did He Influence the Mushrooming Zeitgeist? Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750 By Jonathan Israel LR General Andrew Taylor Loathsome Collection The Island of Lost Maps By Miles Harvey LR Fiction Martyn Bedford Up to the Oxters Landor's Tower By Iain Sinclair LR
Robert Nye The Dark Side of The Stratford Man Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life By Katherine Duncan-Jones LR
Gerald Butt He Loved a Slave Girl Henry Salt: Artist, Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist By Deborah Manley & Peta Ree LR
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto They Mistook Kenya for the Home Counties Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire By David Cannadine LR
Jane O'Grady Did He Influence the Mushrooming Zeitgeist? Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750 By Jonathan Israel LR
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