PAUL JOHNSON
September 2016
J.B. Priestley was known to the public as as a grumpy old man, but that was just a mask
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Europe was the great engine of invention in the 19th century, the US in the 20th. But can they keep up with their 21st century competito?
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A reflection on the past and future of the periodical
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David Kynaston’s Modernity Britain, the fifth of his series of histories of Britain since 1945, reveals the late Fifties to be not a time of illiberalism and repression, but of a generosity of spirit
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