“... Combe Floreys: ‘I believe the parallelogram between Oxford Street, Piccadilly, Regent Street and Hyde Park, encloses more intelligence and human ability, to say nothing of wealth and beauty, than the world has ever collected in such a space before.’ As for the London slums, he favoured an entrance fee for St Paul’s in order to exclude ‘the worst ...”

“... fiction ‘a thousand traits worth very great attention’, and that her maternal grandmother Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ‘despised’ this ‘strange fellow’, no doubt for reasons of class among others, but read him eagerly, sobbed over him, and thought the Harlowe family of the first two tomes of Clarissa ‘very resembling to my maiden ...”

“... I think they were keen to give it to him in thanks for all he hadn’t written about Queen Mary.’ Macfie’s wife trained in the hotel school at Lausanne and worked at the Balmoral Hotel. Together, they decided to run Heriot Row as a place of corporate hospitality as well as a family home. These days, weddings, funerals and overnight stays add to the ...”

“... thunder of that lifesize howitzer by Charles Sergeant Jagger on the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner. Arranged on obelisks are squadrons of engineless planes that will never achieve flight. Granite battleships hide in alcoves. Ghost armies perch on temporary plinths in a psychosexual romance of heavy cloaks, gas masks, boots and belts. I think ...”

“... and an established cinematic grammar of suspense. Take the scene in Season Two when the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of Palmer’s killer is revealed. It’s set up as a standard shot/ reverse shot in which a character looks in the mirror and another face, the killer’s face, appears in its place. Given the identity of the killer, the ‘wrongness’ of the reverse ...”

“... ring road makes the square difficult to get to and it’s in a bad neighbourhood, not far from the Hyde Park street which is said to hold the record for the most burglaries in England. The British Epilepsy Association is offices only but has a steel door, having been broken into three times, one of them a ram-raid; so, coming away, I’m perhaps more conscious ...”

“... with the dying, he began to collect remains, and had those of his grandparents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, transported from St Pancras Old Church in London to the cemetery of St Mary’s in Bournemouth, where they lie today with his mother, Mary.After a number of ‘thundering ...”

“... to annoy her about it. Maud Gonne wrote to Eamon de Valera on the matter, as well as to President Hyde and the board of the Abbey, who responded: ‘We are making every endeavour to have the remains brought home to Ireland.’ The board then wrote to Mrs Yeats herself: ‘Ireland insists that Yeats be buried here.’ De Valera’s wire to her read: ‘We hope ...”

“... a member of the Gaelic League, the organisation founded in 1893 by Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde to promote the use of Irish as a spoken and literary language. This was part of the emergence of a cultural nationalism in Ireland after the fall of Parnell. By 1904, the year Joyce left Ireland, the Gaelic League had 600 branches with 50,000 members. By the ...”