both as history and as a bloody good read. It is a riveting story, with characters and places brought to life. It is the summation of Harry Evison’s life’s work, and is what he will be thankfully

that beneath her difficult-to-demonise image lay a character of principle, passion, courage and commitment. Mary came from a working-class, rural, Catholic background in Canterbury. A mother of eight,

celebrate the life of a man who was one of the outstanding characters of his time. REVIEW Murray Horton COMRADE Bill Andersen: A Communist, Working-Class Life by Cybèle Locke Bridget Williams

Dorothy had a good singing voice and sang in the Marsden and St Mary’s Church choirs. She remembered her Chemistry teacher, June Hillary and the headmistress, Miss Mayhew – who taught her Botany –

with the same cast of characters appearing in each location as the system is perfected. One grim new factor was the increasing use of "air power". From 1919 onward, aircraft of the newborn Royal Air

Disney characters may aspire to immortality”. The main gripe, though, is systemic. In their Introduction the authors update matters with mention of that other latter-day Donald. Walt Disney and his

Organisation (PLO), can be traced character out of “Bugsy Malone”* he democratical y elected Mosaddeq directly to Israeli attacks on previ- was shortly removed by another government in Iran in

characters set on creating systems The sanctions against Iran created infrastructure, because increasing that would evade political over- a playbook that the US Treasury use of sanctions made

In one edition JJ, a trendy character, boards the private yacht of a certain New York tycoon, "whose life and consciousness appear to be that of plain old American big bucks": "Trump points to a ceiling

was most befitting of his character and as fitting a tribute as all could make it. The humour, sorrow and genuine esteem in which Ken was, and is, held was most appropriate. Setting a 75-year Heathcote