Gentlemen in England
Love Unknown
Stray
The Vicar of Sorrows
Dream Children
My Name Is Legion
A Jealous Ghost
Winnie and Wolf
The Lampitt Chronicles
Incline Our Hearts
A Bottle in the Smoke
Daughters of Albion
Hearing Voices
A Watch in the Night
Nonfiction
A View of Walter Scott
A Life of John Milton
Hilaire Belloc
How Can We Know?
Penfriends from Porlock
Tolstoy
C. S. Lewis: A Biography
Jesus
The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
Paul
God’s Funeral
The Victorians
Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her
London: A Short History
After the Victorians
Betjeman
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Copyright © 2008 by A. N. Wilson
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Originally published in 2008 by Hutchinson, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint the following material:
Lines from ‘Knowing Me’ by Benjamin Zaphaniah from Too Black, Too Strong (Bloodax Books, 2001), reproduced with permission.
‘Lebanon government joins forces with bid to have Blair tried in Scotland for war crimes’: Article reproduced with the permission of The Sunday Herald, Glasgow, © 2008 Herald & Times Group; Byline: Neil Mackay; The Sunday Herald; Publication Date: Sunday 06 August 2006.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilson, A. N., 1950–
Our times:the age of Elizabeth II / A. N. Wilson.—1st American ed.
“Originally published in 2008 by Hutchinson, an imprint of Random House
Books, Great Britain”—T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-0-374-22820-0
1. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth II, 1952–2. Great Britain—Social conditions—1945–3. Great Britain—Intellectual life—1945–I. Title.
DA592.W4674 2010
941.085—dc22
2009015652
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