“... is domestic and cultural and has been the focus of most subsequent scholarship – of which Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE is an admirable example. By one of those incomprehensible quirks of academic fashion, some thirty years ago, Llewellyn-...”

“... points out, has done this with particular fervency, and nowhere more so than in Oxford. When Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Regius Professor of Greek from 1960 until 1989, published a collection of essays on the history of his discipline, he called it Blood for the Ghosts, referring not only to the necromantic scene in Homer’s Odyssey ...”

“... denies the influence of Prometheus Bound (as expounded by Wolfgang Schadewaldt and Hugh Lloyd-Jones): the Oresteia is the key to the Ring. Götterdämmerung finishes with ‘a promise of hope and fruitful increase which is comparable with that which Aeschylus perceives as springing from the closing concord between ...”

“... from 1922 – most of the words in the ‘Reader’s Edition’ – wasn’t unlawful, Mr Justice Lloyd ruled, but payment of royalties was required. For work that didn’t appear until after the author’s death, the period of copyright begins with first publication. A facsimile of the Rosenbach manuscript – a fair copy of the text of Ulysses which Joyce ...”

“... In a few weeks, all going well, I will get to see my Polish file. Any foreign journalist who visited Poland regularly in the Communist period must assume that the old Security Service built up a dossier on him or her. Mine is now in the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw, and I can read it. I don’t know what it contains. Much irrelevant rubbish, no doubt: surveillance teams have to justify their expenses ...”

“... and viewy’, a Roman Catholic who converted to Christian Science, became private secretary to Lloyd George in the First World War, and the British Ambassador in Washington in the Second; Robert Brand, thought by Jan Smuts to be ‘the most outstanding member of a very able team’ in South Africa, who became an investment banker and remained easily the ...”

“... job, perhaps, but a further disappointment to his father. The same day, Charlie’s best friend, Lloyd ‘Snowball’ George, a machine minder in the print room and an immigrant from the Caribbean, is beaten up by a gang of racist policemen. When Charlie goes to visit him in hospital, Lloyd rebukes him for never having ...”

“... Chequers which brought together Wilson, his First (and Employment) Secretary Barbara Castle, Jack Jones of the Transport Workers, Hugh Scanlon of the Engineers and Vic Feather, the recently elected TUC General Secretary. The hours of argument circled round the Government’s need – political as much as economic – for legally enforceable constraints on ...”

“... determined to remain neutral. In Ridley’s telling, the war sidelined George. Once Asquith and Lloyd George had dropped the pretence of consulting him on military appointments, it was difficult to fulfil even the attenuated role that Walter Bagehot had reserved for constitutional kings: to be consulted, to encourage and to warn. Able to lead only by ...”

“... by Peter Meineck (1998) and many more free verse or prose versions (by Christopher Collard, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Peter Burian, E.D.A. Morshead and others). Sarah Ruden’s Oresteia (2016) demonstrated that the careful use of English metre, without rhyme, could be used to render Aeschylus in a poetic style that is difficult ...”

“... to the idea of a Snowdonia National Park, quickly added: ‘but keep it under your Crown.’ Jonah Jones has a slightly different version of the same story, like anyone who heard it from Clough himself. In his two autobiographies, Architect Errant (1971) and the even more errant Around the World in Ninety Years (1978), there are different versions, although in ...”

“... attention in three new accounts: Guy de la Bédoyère’s The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s The Cleopatras and Toby Wilkinson’s The Last Dynasty. Bédoyère, the most conventional and conservative of the three (he is surprisingly chary of contemporaneous evidence), likens the story of the ...”

“... The mycological turn’ is a phrase coined ‘half-jokingly’ by Natalia Cecire and Samuel Solomon in an essay published last year in Critical Inquiry. It refers to ‘an enthusiasm for fungi in the various registers of engineering, business, art, medicine and wellness, and popular culture’: a fascination with the material properties of these strange organisms that tips into a sort of messianism, a forlorn hope that fungi may ‘save the world’, or at least live on ‘in capitalist ruins’, as Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing wrote ten years ago in The Mushroom at the End of the World ...”

“... to a House of Lords ruling under the Criminal Justice Act. Overturning the convictions of Margaret Jones and Richard Lloyd, the Stonehenge Two, for ‘trespassory assembly’ at the site, Lord Irvine described the right of access as ‘an issue of fundamental constitutional importance’. The exclusion zone became illegal ...”

“... marriage was loving, but she doesn’t stay on earth for the sake of her policeman husband, Lloyd. She is familiar with the whereabouts and condition of her corpse, torn apart when a car bomb meant for Lloyd killed her instead, but she has never in the half-century since her death (the action of the book is in the ...”