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BRITANNIA LOOKS AHEAD

Norman Davies's History of the Isles Felipe Fernandez-Armesto looks back at the Empire Julian Critchley gets caught up in the Crimean War

Norman Stone scrutinises the Mitrokhin Archive

Anne Applebaum listens to tales of the Gulag

Mark Almond assesses the Balkans Lynn Barber on Flufl:Y Richardson Jeremy Lewis on Slender Spender

Roy Porter on Bozzy Boswell The passions of Freya The sorrows of Tati Seances with Jung Tea with Laurie Lee The Dons Examined The Spencer Tree

PROFUMO GOES KITSCH Malcolm Bradbury reappraises Ralph Ellison