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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. 292, No. 1699, Winter
A Slow Tour of Ludlow
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'Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half-way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer'
A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (No. LXII)
HAS there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived...
Australia's New Government
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THE people have spoken--but we are not clear what they said. This seems to be the main message of the dramatic August 21, 2010 Australian federal election, in which no party received a clear majority. The election was called prematurely by the new...
Eastern Germany's Three Great Cultural Cities
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'WILLKOMMEN in Leipzig' proclaims the sign atop one of a group of communist era tower blocks (scheduled for demolition) opposite the railway station. Covering what would otherwise be their drab exteriors are massive colourful murals, one of which depicts...
Encounters with the Bear: Russia through the Eyes of Young British Visitors
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VISIT any country and the cultural baggage we carry weighs heavily. This is particularly true of Russia, not only the arch-enemy of the Cold War but a hybrid Eurasian land, culturally more remote than Australia. Generations of Western Europeans, even...
From Rhodesia to Britain: Fifty Years Ago
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I committed my first gaff within four hours of arriving in England in March, 1961. Twenty years old, and very wet behind the ears, I had sailed on a Union Castle liner from Capetown to Southampton. From there I went by train to London, where I took...
Impressions of Myanmar (Burma)
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Editor's Note: There has been much attention recently on events in Myanmar or Burma with an election widely dismissed by the international community and release of Aung San Suu Kyi. This article is based on a trip made before these developments. Like...
Ireland Reclaims Trollope
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ON the last Sunday of August 2010, just as the summer sun was beginning to give a sharper note of autumn, a group of people walked about a mile east from the village of Drumsna in County Leitrim. They reached a bridge over a small tributary of the...
Salvator Rosa at the Dulwich Gallery
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THIS winter, following the small exhibition of Salvator Rosa's pictures at the Wallace Collection in 2005, his wild landscapes, which set the scene for such Gothic Novels as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of...
The Historian of Crime: Richard Whittington-Egan
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HOW often today do we encounter the term 'bookman'? Perhaps some younger readers and writers may not he too sure what the term actually means. The bookman was in some ways a product of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, when there was a new flowering...
The Korean War at 60 Part Three: Armistice and Aftermath
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Editor's Note. As the officially approved system for transliterating the Korean script into English has been changed many times since the 1950s, all Korean words, including names, are rendered according to the conventions in use at the time of the...
The Red Danube: An Environmental Disaster in Hungary
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A carcinogenic red dust is settling over a 40 square-kilometre disaster area in Western Hungary that has been devastated by a flood of caustic sludge released by the ruptured dam of a waste reservoir serving an aluminium production plant. This is probably...
The World of Paperbacks
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LONGMAN'S 'Annotated Texts' series is a well respected and long established publishing venture and we have recently seen a number of new editions of anthologies of women's writings. These include Alexandra Barratt's Women's Writing in Middle English...
