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“... to Spenser Junior in the play have failed to accept and understand that Edward preferred men. Mortimer Senior, in a speech in the play, seems to believe that Edward’s relationship with Gaveston was in a long tradition, but that he would grow out of it: And seeing his mind so dotes on Gaveston, Let him without controlment have his will. The mightiest ...”

“... a process which, if properly undertaken, is slow, painstaking and, more often than not, dull. Sir Mortimer Wheeler probably started the rot and then there was Glyn Daniel and his bow ties and today it’s Tony Robinson capering about professing huge excitement because of the uncovering of the (entirely predictable) foundations of a Benedictine priory at ...”

“... the case had on his career, and on the attitudes of his family and friends back in the village of Mortimer Common, is not revealed.There are other occasions where nothing sexual is spelled out, or where a well-to-do man has the misfortune to pick up a violent criminal. When Viscount Sudley was robbed by two young low-lifes he’d chatted up in a West End ...”