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Contemporary Review
Founded in 1866, Contemporary Review is a scholarly journal published quarterly. Contemporary Review Company Ltd. owns and publishes this journal, and its editorial headquarters is in Oxford, United Kingdom.Contemporary Review covers a number of topics, including politics, international affairs, literature, art and art history. Its region and its audience are international. Dr. Richard Mullen is the editor; Dr. Alex Kerr is the managing editor; Dr. James Munson is the literary editor; and Anselma Bruce is the associate editor. James LoGerfo, Robin Findlay and Charles Foster are the editorial advisers.
Articles from Vol. 275, No. 1602, July
A Letter from Prague
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What's new in Prague? From the window to the left of my computer, I see the back faces of two buildings, closing a courtyard. I dare to start my letter from Prague, Czech Republic, by telling you very short stories of these two houses. On the right...
Anglicanism: A Dialogue between Present and Past
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Many years ago the BBC had a short-lived fashion for 'imaginary conversations', in which historical personages who could never have met were set to explain themselves to each other - Dr Johnson and Cardinal Newman, for example. A variant of this device...
Dancing in the Thirties
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Dancing in the 1930s (and the 1920s, though in the 20s it was a new 'craze', rather than the accepted part of the social pattern which it had become in the 30s) meant, for the majority of young Britons, four basic dances (or steps as they were frequently...
Doubts about the European Union
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I suppose Gordon Brown receives a lot of letters from cranks. The handwritten letter I fired off to the Chancellor of the Exchequer three months ago was, I admit, impulsive and 'emotional': you can tell that from the fact that, unusually. I did not...
Hungary's Guardian of Human Rights
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Hungary's first Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights has issued a seating analysis of the 'uncivilized and intolerable' conditions prevailing at the country's overcrowded reception centres housing fugitives from war and tyranny in places like...
Returning to Orford - a Summer Weekend
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On a Friday in summer we reach Orford's Jolly Sailor pub earlier than expected, so the room is not ready. Two women from the village are making up the beds, tucking in the sheet corners, smoothing out the blankets. 'A little more on your side, Mabel.'...
Scotland: An Era of Good Feeling
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On 6th May the relatively conservative and still decidedly unionist forces in Scottish politics won the first elections for the new devolved Parliament in Edinburgh, though for the time being they find expression in the policies of 'New Labour'. Led...
The Club of Rome: The Global Conscience
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The world economy is growing, but at what cost? Despite the unprecedented levels of wealth in developed countries, these countries are troubled by many social problems such as violence, theft, family breakdown and drug addiction. In a wider sense,...
The Constitution in Danger
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A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom slowly broadens down, From precedent to precedent. When Tennyson wrote those words about Britain in mid-nineteenth century, it would seem to him that all was well with the...
