“... 19th century the surprise stop is at Nietzsche, who, Forty persuades us, saw space ‘as a force field, generated by the dynamism of bodily movement’. Semper is bypassed for the moment. Then come the heavily populated 1890s, when three authors, Hildebrand, Lipps and Schmarsow, simultaneously press their own readings of Raum as fundamental categories of ...”

“... which had terrorised Northern settlers and sacked the town of Lawrence, but ridiculed Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina in unusually personal terms, alluding to his speech impediment. ‘He shows an incapacity of accuracy,’ Sumner declared. ‘He cannot open his mouth, but out there flies a blunder.’ Brooks was Butler’s second cousin ...”

“... community theorist Thomas Sieverts, who argues that man’s natural habitat lies not in the open field nor in the forest but at the border between them, so that he can choose which way to go. Nevertheless, under capitalism choice is always bound up with money and class. Bruegmann’s confidence in the benefits of sprawl goes with an American faith in the ...”

“... out of two), Randall Garrison, Donald Stallybrass, Ellery Akers, Peter Abbs, John Hodgen, Andrew Motion, Edwin Drummond, Gregory Harrison, Gordon Mason and Robert Ballard, Isabel Nathaniel and Peter Didsbury, Anthony Edkins and Brian Cosgrove. Several get prizes, and in particular Andrew Motion gets the big ...”

“... of Foucault, Erving Goffman, Thomas Szasz and R.D. Laing, and more recently the contributions of Andrew Scull and a new generation of historians, have made it impossible to accept the Whig view of psychiatry’s history. Yet, if these writers have managed to convince historians that work in the subject must take account both of the wider social and political ...”

“... the ideal from the mind of the reader; the force of contrast is crucial to their effect. Flanders field was the very opposite of those fields across which the cavalry rode. Yet it was still a field. Many First World War poems – like many passages of the best prose arising out of the war – owe their poignancy to the fact ...”

“... became a pupil at St Paul’s School, and precociously began publishing ‘Nature’ essays and ‘Field Notes’ in magazines such as the New Age, the Speaker and the Globe, it was clear that the opportunities he intended to create with his pen were of a more rhapsodical and isolated kind. Thomas felt lucky to get a smell of printer’s ink so young, but his ...”

“... and St Petersburg. In 1993 he won the ‘Little Booker’ (awarded for ‘a contribution to the field of literature’) with The Blue Lantern and Other Stories;1 the fact that The Clay Machine-Gun failed to make the shortlist for the 1997 Russian Booker itself caused a scandal, and was taken more as an indictment of the literary establishment than as a ...”

“... to us.’ The area around the waterway in Bristol has been reinvented. The architects have had a field day, and you detect, thereabouts, the flurry of design competitions and the late-night glow of Anglepoise lamps. People have worked hard to make the place modern, to overcome a possible downturn in West Country parts and labour, but you couldn’t say the ...”

“... at a machine-gun holding us up: he was struck in the heart and out of the holes in the back of his field jacket flew little clouds of tissue, blood and powdered cloth. Near him another man raised himself to fire, but the machine-gun caught him in the mouth, and as he fell he looked back at me with surprise, blood and teeth dribbling out onto the leaves. He was ...”

“... in favour of arranging society on Darwinian lines. Not surprisingly, his ideas were popular with Andrew Carnegie and his fellow steel magnates. Konrad Lorenz saw humans as ‘killer apes’, which may have explained his own flirtation with the Nazis. Until recently, the study of animal behaviour was little more than a set of loosely-connected anecdotes. It ...”

“... hospital for surgery were ‘exposed to more chances of death than was the English soldier on the field of Waterloo’. By the end of the 19th century, however, Joseph Lister had introduced an effective antisepsis routine, and this, combined with anaesthesia, had transformed surgery (though mortality rates were still high). Surgeons were becoming heroes: in ...”

“... been singing the hosannas of ‘shock and awe’ were converted to counter-insurgency. A new army field manual, FM 3-24, drafted under the direction of General David Petraeus, became the new bible. Charged with turning around the failing US effort in Iraq, Petraeus took his bible to Baghdad and used it to implement ‘the surge’. Among those ascending to ...”

“... with my mother to buy me a Little-Big-Man action doll from Woolworths and then burning it in a field with my pals. Most of our games, when I think of it, were predicated on someone else’s humiliation or eventual pain. It made us feel strong and untouchable. If all of this sounds uncommonly horrific, then I can only say that it did not seem so then; it ...”

“... a mile. Sometimes they would be encouraged to race down a long street, rather than over a grassy field, and the relative nimbleness of the birds became the subject of fast and furious debating, and of course betting. The long distances that pigeons would later be expected to cover – capitalising on their strange homing instinct – did not figure in the ...”