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Edwin Lutyens: the nation’s remembrancer-in-chief
Though much admired for his domestic architecture, Lutyens is perhaps most celebrated for Whitehall’s Cenotaph and the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Letters
Trimming the ermine Sir: I am a new boy in the House of Lords compared with Viscount Astor — though…
Divide and quit
Had it not been for the empire, Britain might have lost the second world war, says William Dalrymple. The war certainly lost Britain the empire
Rags, riches and respectability
In a grand history of the British empire — because that is what this book really is — you might…
