1988

The Warrior Queens, Part Two

Part Two Matilda, Daughter of Peter England’s Domina Lion of the Caucasus Isabella with her Prayers Elizabetha Triumphans Jinga at the Gates Queen versus Mother The Valiant Rani Iron Ladies Unbecoming in a Woman?

The Warrior Queens, Part One

Part One A Singular Exception Antique Glories The Queen of War Iceni: this Powerful Tribe Ruin by a Woman The Red Layer Eighty Thousand Dead O Zenobia!

The King’s Jaunt

The Journey or the Jaunt? For the Credit of Old Scotland Heir to the Chevalier A Plaided Panorama

Opera on the Beach

Introduction Apprenticeship of Sorts Paris Soho Einstein on the Beach The Music The Libretto Satyagraha The Music The Libretto Akhnaten The Music The Libretto Some Other Music

Berlin Diaries 1940-1945

Foreword   George Vassiltchikov Maps January to December 1940 January to June 1941 Interlude: June 1941 to July 1943 July to December 1943 January to 18 July 1944 19 July to September 1944 January to September 1945 Epilogue

Battle at Sea

Introduction: Battle at Sea Trafalgar The Wooden World The Strategic Background Nelson versus Napoleon Nelson versus Villeneuve Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail Battle off Cape Trafalgar What Had Happened? The Aftermath Jutland The Fall of the Wooden Walls High Seas Fleet versus Royal Navy The War of Sea before Jutland The Ironclad World …

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Religion in Victorian Britain: II – Controversies

Introduction: From Centre to Periphery, Victorian Religious Controversies in Perspective   Gerald Parsons Class, Religion and Society The Word and the World: Evangelism in the Victorian City   David Englander Social Control to Social Gospel: Victorian Christian Social Attitudes   Gerald Parsons A Question of Meaning: Religion and Working-Class Life   Gerald Parsons Church, State and Society Anglicanism, Parliament …

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Religion in Victorian Britain: I – Traditions

Introduction: Victorian Religion, Paradox and Variety   Gerald Parsons Reform, Revival and Realignment: The Experience of Victorian Anglicanism   Gerald Parsons From Dissenters to Free Churchmen: The Transitions of Victorian Nonconformity   Gerald Parsons Victorian Britain’s Other Establishment: The Transformations of Scottish Presbyterianism   Gerald Parsons Victorian Roman Catholicism: Emancipation, Expansion and Achievement   Gerald Parsons The Clerical Renaissance in …

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Marivaux: Plays

Marivaux: a Chronology Introduction   Claude Schumacher Marivaux, eighteenth-century French theatre and the Italian Comedy Marivaux at the Comédie-Française Marivaux’s Originality Marivaxu on the post-war stage Our anthology