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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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New Statesman
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Political weekly founded in 1913 by Beatrice and Sidney *Webb, with active support from Bernard *Shaw and other leading members of the *Fabian Society. Its main rival has consistently been the Spectator; each has offered a lively mix of political opinion and arts coverage, the New Statesman from the left and the Spectator from the right of centre. Their fortunes have somewhat depended on the prevailing political mood (the eighties favoured the Spectator).
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Over the years the New Statesman has absorbed several other distinguished periodicals – notably the Nation and Athenaeum in 1931 (the first year of the reign of its most famous editor, Kingsley Martin, who remained in the post until 1960), and more recently New Society (1988) and Marxism Today (1991).
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