Contents

From the Editors

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Social Climbing • jeremy noel-tod & robert macfarlane

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A Chequered Career • jeremy lewis

Down and Out in Havana • alice o’keeffe

Mr Smith Goes to Arcadia • richard platt

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Optimistic Green Flags • linda leatherbarrow

Stinks and Germs • michele hanson

Imaginative Leaps • duncan minshull

None of Her Business • simon lawrence

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A Most Unusual Memsahib • amanda theunissen

Between Two Worlds • a. e. roberts

Just Getting on with It • a. f. harrold

Silly Suffolk • branwen lucas

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Chips with Everything • andrew martin

Departed Grandeur • lucy lethbridge

Straw Hat with Red Plaits • daisy hay

Confessions of a Manuscripts Curator • c. j. wright

Bibliography

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Yvonne Skargon

Any books mentioned in this issue that are out of print may be obtained through your public library, from second-hand booksellers or

via the Internet.

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