REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
From Reformation to Improvement. Public Welfare in Early Modern England. By Paul Slack.
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1585–1597. By Paul E.J. Hammer.
The Stuart Parliaments 1603–1689 . By David L. Smith.
World Enough and Time. The Life of Andrew Marv dl. By Nicholas Murray.
The Age of Faction. Court Politics, 1660–1102. By Alan Marshall.
Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England . By Melinda Zook.
Eighteenth Scotland. New Perspectives . Edited by T.M. Devine and J.R. Young
Unionist-Nationalism. Governing Urban Scotland, 1830–60 . By Graeme Morton.
An Appetite for Power. A History of the Conservative Party Since 1830 . By John Ramsden.
Gladstone. Heroic Minister 1865–1898 . By Richard Shannon.
Salisbury. Victorian Titan . By Andrew Roberts.
The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878–1948 . By John Macnicol.
Churchill. His Radical Decade . By Malcolm Hill.
Bonar Law . By R.J.Q. Adams. London: John Murray.
The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage, Popular Conservatism, 1919–1929 . By Neal McCrillis.
Labour in Crisis. The Second Labour Government 1929–1931 . By Neil Riddell.
Thatcherism and British Politics 1975–1999 . By Brendan Evans.
British Parliamentary Election Results 1983–1997 . Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher
Governing Scotland: Problems and Prospects. The Economic Impact of the Scottish Parliament . Edited by John McCarthy and David Newlands