Table of Contents

Includes:. Kingsley Amis on Sir John Betjeman. Michael Kitson on Sir Anthony Blunt. Stephen Spender on W. H. Auden. Ian Gilmour on R. A. Butler. Richard Ellmann on T. S. Eliot. Roy Jenkins on Anthony Crosland. Yehudi Menuhin on Jacqueline du Pre. Alan Bennett on Russell Harty. Donald Trelford on Sir Len Hutton. David Cecil on Virginia Woolf. Philip Ziegler on Wallis Simpson

About the Author

H. C. G. Matthew is Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. Since 1992 he has been editing the New Dictionary of National Biography which will replace the present one. His writings on Gladstone, now brought together in Gladstone 1809-1898 (1997), won the 1995 Wolfson Prize for History.