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To Place Beside The Throne

Steven Runciman THE OXFORD BOOK OF ROYAL ANECDOTES edited by Elizabeth Longford OUP, £16, pp.546 W hat is an anecdote? In her introduc - tion to this entertaining anthology — if......

Arts

Art history The jargonmongers' ball A university colleague of mine in the 1970s described American Studies as 'an academic dustbin'. If the recent Annual Conference of the......