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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Piano in the Jungle: Len Edwards and Burma
In 2000, Dame Vera Lynn was awarded the ‘Spirit of the Twentieth Century’ prize in a poll to pick the Briton who best exemplified this ‘spirit’. This seems like more of a compliment to Britain than it does to Vera … Continue reading
The Chatterley Trial and Anthony Powell
Undergraduate classes and general histories of modern Britain invariably quote Philip Larkin’s famous lines: ‘Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixy-three/Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Beatles’ first LP’. The trial over whether Lady Chatterley’s Lover was fit reading for … Continue reading