“... boxer, was rehearsed in the building. Miriam Makeba, Athol Fugard, Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela were among the artists who came and went.Cole must have taken these photos in the 1960s, when the prospects for Black artists were bleak. ‘Remnants,’ he wrote on his draft chapter folder, ‘of culture, creativity, and of all the things they ...”

“... cloistered rooms, and the works of the classics’.He also joined the Fabians, encouraged by Hugh Dalton, the postwar Labour chancellor. He took it seriously, did a lot of reading, especially about the Webbs’ Minority Report on Poor Law reform, and in the summer of 1910, at the end of his year as president of the Cambridge society, he and Dudley Ward ...”

“... blood, and also remembers the fate of the regicides. As Lewalski points out, Cromwell’s adviser Hugh Peters was executed as a regicide because he promoted ‘regicide before the fact’. This was a dangerous precedent for Milton: he had written The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates after the execution of the King in 1649 to ‘reconcile men’s minds’ by ...”

“... out by a doodlebug.In a spin-off novella based on the series – the first of twelve such books by Hugh Miller – Dr Legg, the GP who in the first episode will tend to both the pregnant Pauline and the comatose Reg, is married to a young nurse who is killed by an unexploded bomb in the garden of their newly bought home. Dr Legg, whose last appearance in the ...”

“... puzzling figure. She was the middle daughter of a Munich schoolteacher and a former seamstress, Hugh Trevor-Roper called her ‘a historical disappointment’ on the grounds that she played ‘no role in the decisions that led to the worst crimes of the century’. Would a Lady Macbeth have been less ‘disappointing’? In contrast to Magda Goebbels and ...”

“... been overpaid for Caleb Williams, and that he himself had been underpaid, at £1000, for his novel Hugh Trevor. There was an austerity, finally, in his behaviour, ‘an imperiousness of tone & personality of accusation’, entirely different, apparently, from Godwin’s manner of addressing people. Indeed, Godwin wasn’t sure, he told Holcroft, whether he had ...”

“... the action was no more significant than scratching a mosquito bite. Porter gets back as far as Hugh of St Victor, in the 12th century, for the idea that human beings originate in a slimy emission of semen, but he could have gone further back, to the Greek poet Palladas: ‘You were born from unbridled coupling and a disgusting drip.’ The physicalist ...”

“... of China, ‘lost’ to the communists. In 1954, Buckley gave a speech at the Waldorf Astoria in honour of McCarthy’s aide-de-camp, Roy Cohn, whose crude tactics were seen (including by Buckley) as contributing to their patron’s downfall. Later in life Buckley distanced himself from McCarthy’s legacy, but his calculations in the 1950s made ...”

“... was it in the first place? 3 May. Invited to Speech Day at Giggleswick, where the Guest of Honour is to be Lord Archer. Write back and say I can’t come but I look forward to being invited next year when doubtless the guest will be Bernard Manning. Giggleswick doesn’t have many distinguished old boys though one which it never seems to acknowledge ...”

“... readers not to Barth, Gellner or Geertz, and certainly not to such historical revisions as Hugh Brody’s The Other Side of Eden (2001), or Stephen Oppenheimer’s Out of Eden (2003), let alone to such disturbing stuff as Chris Knight’s Blood Relations (1995), or remarkable surveys like Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo’s The Anthropology of ...”

“... 1960s, Loach and Garnett were ready to move on from the BBC, where the liberal regime overseen by Hugh Greene was coming to an end. Loach had already made one thoroughly unsatisfactory venture into feature film with Poor Cow (1967), co-starring Carol White and Terence Stamp, the latter fresh from John Schlesinger’s grandiose Far from the Madding Crowd. He ...”

“... into believing a chest is heavy with gold – ‘that big box of sand’ in Pound’s Cantos. Honour emerges, as Joachim Küpper has written, as just ‘a name for the public acknowledgment of the legitimacy of material wealth’.El Cid obeys a law of tyrants: as his character gets sillier, he grows unassailable. By the early 15th century, his legend was ...”

“... kind of annual poet laureate), the only foreign citizen to have held the post. Ironically, this honour came when he was publishing hardly any new poetry. In 1971 he finally brought out a new volume, his first for 22 years: many of the periodicals ignored it. (Sutherland cites a somewhat severe review in the TLS, still in those days anonymous, as being by ...”

“... Various literary luminaries contributed verses to the Crudities, among them Donne, Jonson, Hugh Holland and John Davies of Hereford. Other contributors included Lionel Cranfield, later Earl of Middlesex; Sir Henry Goodyer, the patron of the poet Drayton; and the architect Inigo Jones. The vein is one of mock-commendation, but the sheer bulk of the ...”

“... and a rejection of secular and utilitarian values. Paisley singles out one young Covenanter, Hugh McKail, who was ‘only 27 years old’ when he was led to the scaffold. His description of McKail’s execution is ironically similar to Padraig Pearse’s account of Robert Emmett’s execution, where the body of the ‘comely’ young man is desecrated on ...”