Ernest Barker

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES i. THE DISTRIBUTION OF BRITISH UNIVERSITIES A little over a century ago, at the end of the Napoleonic wars, there were only two Universities in England (the old Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which go back to the year 1200) ; there was none in Wales; there were...

MIDDLE TEMPLE HALL, 1738WHERE MANY BRITISH STATESMEN HAVE RECEIVED THEIR TRAINING IN THE LAWOil painting by Joseph NicholsIWHAT is a statesman ? The question is easily asked, but not so easily answered. Perhaps the best way of casting about for an answer is to attempt a distinction between the...