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Since it was rarely wise to marry a royal daughter into one of the noble families of one’s own realm and thus disturb political balances, the consequence for the princess was generally a journey to some unfamiliar land, often involving the need to learn an unfamiliar language and understand the intimidatingly different culture of a new royal court.
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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815-1945 by N.A.M. Rodger. Allen Lane, 934 pp., £40, October, 978 0 7139 9412 4
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Contents · Vol. 46 No. 21 · 07 November 2024
The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett. Allen Lane, 540 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 39422 9
Contents · Vol. 46 No. 22 · 21 November 2024
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro. Penguin, 420 pp., £10.99, May, 978 0 14 199384 3
William Davies · A Crisis in Credibility: Labour’s Conundrum
B efore Labour took power in July, there was a lot of talk about ‘foundations’, and it has continued since. The second chapter of the party’s election manifesto was titled ‘Strong Foundations’. On the fourth day of the new administration, Rachel Reeves gave a speech outlining the ways she planned to ‘fix the foundations of our economy’.
Contents · Vol. 45 No. 2 · 19 January 2023 - London Review of Books
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1938-43 edited by Simon Heffer. Hutchinson, 1120 pp., £35, September 2021, 978 1 78633 182 3
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Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany by Esra Özyürek. Stanford, 264 pp., £25.99, March, 978 1 5036 3556 2