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Exploring Branch Lines

Oliver Rackham SILVA: THE TREE IN BRITAIN by Archie Miles Ebury Press, .f30, pp. 400 G o into a picture gallery, choose a landscape painting at random, and ask yourself, 'What......

Don't Lock The Coffin, Dr Louis

Jan Morris THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, VOLUMES I-V editor-in-chief William Roger Louis OUP, £30 each, except Volume Vat £35 T he passion has faded, the pride is......