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“... will eat his uranium rod.’Britain has major coalfields across the central belt of Scotland, North-East England, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and South Wales, as well as smaller ones scattered across the country, including in such seemingly unlikely locations as Kent. (There are also coal deposits in Ireland, but these are relatively ...”

“... In the Republic, the Catholic hierarchy denounced feminism as an attack on the family. In the North, we had rows about whether you could be a feminist without being a republican, a republican and not a feminist. We had rows about whether there were unionist feminists, or feminist unionists. What about feminists who defined themselves just as ...”

“... have been implemented without cross community consent. It has been (illegally) boycotting joint north-south bodies. Unionism, meanwhile, maintains its own border in the Irish Sea, refusing to implement British legislation it dislikes, notably on abortion provision. The UUP is tentatively moving in a more progressive direction, but Beattie also fears the ...”

“... public treatments for it, until he comes to realise he is happier sexless – released from his North London modern marriage, regressing into his monastic, homosexual Oxford community, though that is at the very point of succumbing to co-education. The more you think about this novel, the less the end reads like a solution, and the less Amis’s thinking ...”

“... supporters from all classes but were, predictably, strongest in radical London and the industrial north, drawing in those lower-middle-class shopkeepers and working-class artisans and operatives who made up the shock troops of the temperance, naturopathy, anti-vivisection, spiritualist and so many other single-issue movements. The leagues publicised cases of ...”

“... more likely to be found in Kensington or Chelsea than in industrial towns or the progressive North. Its leaders tended to head up women’s imperial organisations as well, and to be linked by birth and marriage to the imperial governing class. Add to this that the anti-suffragists were on average older than their opponents and much more likely to be ...”

“... no longer has – or is – a state. The political field throughout most of the Middle East and North Africa is dominated by the various fiercely competing brands of Islamism, while the religious field has been in a state of profound disorder since the abolition of the Caliphate following the destruction of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. A ...”

“... spinning in the Western Highlands, a barn in a Norwegian saeter, and a little curiosity shop in North London kept by a Jew with a dyed beard’ – and make up a story to connect them. The reader won’t know that you ‘fixed upon the solution first, and then invented a problem to suit it’. This suggests, among other things, that in the world Buchan ...”

“... but it absorbed rather than made money. In 1892, broke but unbowed, the family went back north and the children, finally, went to school. Sylvia flourished more than Christabel, showing a talent for drawing and decoration that won her scholarships to the Manchester School of Art and, later, to the Royal College of Art, as well as a travelling ...”

“... Hugh Trevor-Roper and Briggs, leaving only Eric Hobsbawm to Richard Evans. Briggs’s widow, Susan, commissioned Sisman to write this Life, and in fact the man himself noted before his death in 2016 that if there had to be a biography, Sisman would be the right person to do it. The result is an elaborately detailed and affectionate account that leaves a ...”

“... and contemporary records of the symptomatology and mortality of the disease, have persuaded Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan (and others) that another parasite must have been at work. There can be no doubt that not everyone who died during these outbreaks died of the plague itself. But the sceptics dismiss strong evidence of Yersinia pestis too ...”

“... on the bandwagon now, and it wasn’t much of a bandwagon to start with. If cinephilia is dead, as Susan Sontag some time ago suggested it was, who cares about the simultaneous death of two cinéastes? Still, no reader of signs can resist a coincidence, the image of a meaning that can’t be there. Michelangelo Antonioni (born 1912) and Ingmar Bergman (born ...”

“... governing motifs in British social life. Most people – across class, political, urban-rural, and north-south divides – usually pursued both freedom and connection, liberty and belonging. ‘The great epochal shift from social democratic to neoliberal politics looks a lot messier when seen from below.’ Take the neighbourliness and extended family ...”

“... draconian reforms – reforms that, Julius Nyerere and Michael Manley charged at the South-North Conference held in Arusha in 1980, were undermining the sovereignty the new states had ostensibly just won. This was the year sub-Saharan debt reached $84 billion; by 1995 the figure was $220 billion (and the total Third World debt $2 trillion). Sasson ends ...”

“... a ladle that balances on its bowl, allowing the handle to float in alignment with the planet’s north-south axis. Directions provided by such instruments were first used for divination, astrology and geomancy, ensuring that buildings were constructed in harmony with the Earth’s energy. Then, as the technology was miniaturised, with magnetised iron needles ...”