Books photo: The History of England’s Cathedrals by Nicholas Orme (revised edition)

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Coventry Cathedral

In a painting by Fred Roe, King George VI talks to Provost Howard on a visit to the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral, on 16 November 1940; on the right is the Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison. It is one of the illustrations in Nicholas Orme’s The History of England’s Cathedrals, described as “magisterial” by our reviewer (Books,24 November 2017) and now out in a revised paperback edition (Yale, £20 (£18); 978-0-300-27548-3)

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