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It is a recipe for frustration. Frozen in time by wartime restrictions, young men in post-war Britain have much the same 1930s attitudes to life as their fathers. On the other hand, the young women are looking to advance on the wartime job freedoms their mothers experienced. The Lord Chancellor still wields his blue pencil but, as always, sex is on the mind of every young person. In the autumn of 1954 five clever and self-confident lads in the...

The authors of the fifteen essays that make up this 1988 volume interpret 'Myth and its Making' in the widest possible sense.

Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medicolegal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story and used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology...