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Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl Of Longford
Page 6 from 10th August 2001The 'dotty peer' who cared more for the despised than for his own dignity W hen he was approached, at the tender age of 92, about writing a......
The Dazzling Return Of A Master Cherry-picker
Page 13 from 24th August 2007Harry Mount is impressed by the way Norman Stone mixes facts and juicy anecdotes in his new short history of World War One — a perfect example for......
Incidental Rudeness Of The Great Novelist
Page 6 from 5th September 1980The Letters of Evelyn Waugh edited by Mark Amory (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 14.50). 'FOR YOU and me this is the publishing event of the year. A......
Addicted To Motherhood
Page 6 from 28th August 1986The Pebbled Shore: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Longford. (Weidenfeld, £14.95). HISTORY provides some fascinating might-have-beens. Elizabeth Longford......
Rank Offensiveness And Field Warfare
Page 4 from 4th June 1993Desmond Albrow THE CLASS war warriors have recently been much in evidence in the public prints. Lord Rees-Mogg started the skirmish by making some......
Give Her A Seat In The Lords!
Page 6 from 19th September 1997Elizabeth Longford's extraordinary gifts have still not been fully recognised, says PETER STANFORD Elizabeth Longford by Sister Frances Makower,......
How Quickly We've Forgotten Osbert Lancaster
Page 14 from 12th December 2008Cartoons and Coronets: The genius of Osbert Lancaster WALLACE COLLECTION, LONDON I t is curious, if not alarming, how quickly history passes by.......
X Ord Weeps And Laughs
Page 6 from 12th August 1988BOOKS OF THE MONTH Young Betjeman by Bevis Hillier (John Murray £15.95). Bevis Hillier first told me of his projected life of John Betjeman about......
By Fr. C. C. Martindale, S.j.
Page 3 from 6th July 1956THE WORLD OF ODYSSEUS, by M. I. Finley (Chaff° and Windus, 1Ss.). T HIS book assumes not only that its readers know the two great Homeric poems,......
Delicious Days At Oxford In The 1920s
Page 8 from 22nd October 1976The memoirs of my contemporaries rarely fail to give me pleasure. At Oxford, during those delicious 1920s when so few had never had it so good, I......