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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. 281, No. 1643, December
Art Notes: The Fauves Move into the Courtauld Gallery
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The latest exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery is unusual in that it has no closing date. The display of early twentieth-century pictures from private collections, presumably on long loan, have been confidently absorbed into the main display. There...
Canada's Railroads
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IN my childhood, as a boy growing up on a farm in western Canada, my greatest pleasure was to travel with my father to Neville, at that time a town of some 200 souls. What I looked forward to most was waiting for the train to make one of its weekly...
Fifty Glorious Legal Years? English Law during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth II
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A LOT has happened in England over the last fifty years. And a lot has happened in the wider world too. England is less an island than it has ever been, and so it has been more affected by things in the wider world than ever before. The English...
India's Nuclear Decision
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FOR the most part, the evidence of the 1990s would seem to suggest that the stability and prosperity of Asia-Pacific have flowed in part from the widespread adherence by regional countries to the non-proliferation norms and regimes, the centrepiece...
Phoenix Press. (the World of Paperbacks)
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PHOENIX PRESS has recently brought out a spate of history titles and biographies by some of our most popular writers. Following a roughly chronological approach, these include, first, Medieval Women. A Social History of Women in England 450-1500...
Searching My Own Book on the Internet
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'BOOKS are like children. You give them birth, and watch over them in their early years; but there comes a day when they leave home to stand on their own feet and you have no control over their subsequent history'. That quote comes from a letter...
The Continental Homelands of the Anglo-Saxons
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MUCH has been written about the Anglo-Saxons, their way of life, their laws, their language, poetry, methods of farming and so on but little, or nothing, is now written about their pre-British history. What, then, do we know about the Continental...
The Costly Lessons of Central Europe's Floods
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LESSONS learned from Central Europe's worst flooding for perhaps 150 years may well lead to improved land-use management and weather forecasting techniques as well as the establishment of a permanent disaster relief fund to cope with future effects...
Walpole's Pictures Revisit England
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WE have misjudged Sir Robert Walpole. The prevalent image of Walpole, the 'first Prime Minister', is of an uncouth foxy squire (something like Sir Pitt Crawley in Thackeray's Vanity Fair) who managed the country for a total of twenty years by bribery...
