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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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Passport to Pimlico
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(1949) One of the *Ealing comedies, beginning with the discovery of a document which proves the London area of Pimlico to be legally all that remains of ancient Burgundy. The resulting struggle between Whitehall bureaucracy and the new state (with Stanley Holloway as its prime minister) turns into a joyful rejection of the bleak austerities of postwar Britain. Margaret Rutherford plays a small part as an eccentric expert on Burgundian history.
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