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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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A.J. Cronin
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(1896–1981) Scottish novelist, who trained as a doctor in Glasgow and practised medicine in a mining community in Wales. The success of his first novel, Hatter's Castle (1931), enabled him to become a full-time writer. Like nearly all his work it contained much autobiography. The Citadel (1937) was a fierce attack on the greed of the fashionable doctors of Harley Street. But it was his account of a rural medical practice which reached the widest audience, for he was the creator of the television series *Dr Finlay's Casebook.
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