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“... have now been revised, expanded and tightened – although the speculative tone of the lecture-hall has been appropriately retained. Many other scholars have recently explored the development of the Church of England over the two long reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, and one of Collinson’s achievements, executed with singular modesty and ...”

“... find abhorrent, but money-spinning authors have to be humoured. Two novels written by ‘Ian Stuart’ seem not to have done quite as well as the others, though both were bought for filming; later they were reissued successfully under his own name. Mac-Lean underwent another crisis of doubt when he decided to suspend writing and tackle a real job of ...”

“... keep other women out.’ This suggests that at other periods the Englishman’s home was Liberty Hall. Josephine Butler boldly attacked the Acts, condemning the moral codes which governed attitudes to prostitution, but she is unlikely to have seen the issue as one of manners. When the Acts were scrapped after twenty years life went on as before; no codes had ...”

“... reach’: she is an excellent pianist; she knows her Shakespeare, her Adam Smith and her John Stuart Mill. Like Henry Perowne in Saturday, she is enlightened and honourable: a quietly heroic technocrat who brings ‘reasonableness to hopeless situations’, a liberal-paternalist superego figure who sorts things out sensibly, by compulsion if ...”

“... three years since the first Jacobite Rising had attempted to place the Old Pretender, James Edward Stuart, on the throne, and although the Murrays were well-known Jacobites, the family was well enough connected to ensure that, when he reached London, William was able to enter Westminster School and then Christ Church, Oxford, at both of which he shone as a ...”

“... of their time was spent attacking the other stall-holders. After Wordsworth, Carlyle, Newman, John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold spoke up for the liberal university and the higher journalism as natural bulwarks against the tide of commercialism. In LeMahieu’s eyes such figures stand convicted of a cultural élitism which stemmed from their-groundless ...”

“... they designed a glassy, Mediterranean block of flats and shops in Clipstone Street in Fitzrovia, a hall of residence for Woolwich Polytechnic and two blocks as part of that comprehensive redevelopment of Gospel Oak. All these buildings have been in the guide at one time or another, although Woolwich Poly’s halls, noted for their ‘search for a lost ...”

“... has in mind. In choosing Arnold as his representative Victorian liberal rather than, say, John Stuart Mill – who had no truck with the theory of inherent racial differences – Cheyette tacitly follows in the footsteps of Lionel Trilling, Arnold’s most influential Jewish exponent. But where Trilling applauded the Arnoldian vision of the ‘complete ...”

“... its two leading commentators. Both were committed to a critique of the trad-itional Left, but for Stuart Hall, ‘the road to renewal’ passed through an acknowledgment of the ideological strength of Thatcherism, to whose construction of a new common sense for the British people he devoted a great deal of attention: only by taking the full measure of ...”

“... and still less, as he hoped when Austen-Leigh died, to elect him Provost. When his old friend Stuart Donaldson used his influence as Master of Magdalene to offer Benson a fellowship there, kind friends took as much of the pleasure out of it as they could by congratulating him on the skill with which Donaldson had done a classic job. It was a time when he ...”

“... or seven operas flourished in the theatre – nothing could have kept them down; so in the concert hall did the Requiem. All that is utterly changed. Verdi’s 26 operas (28 if you count revisions under new titles) have all been performed; few, perhaps two or three at most, seem unlikely to hold the stage. Julian Budden’s three-volume study is only the chief ...”

“... of the practical responsibility falls to three female members of that family. Of her two sons, Stuart, a policeman, thinks she should be in a council home: ‘Grandma had paid her taxes and was entitled and that was that.’ Charlie, a successful broker, is willing to pay the rent for the house where she lives, and to hire a variety of helpers or ...”

“... before the heads were severed, stuck on ‘traitors’ poles’ and displayed at Westminster Hall as a gruesome deterrent to future anti-monarchical agitators.But Charles II had no wish to acquire his father’s nickname, ‘Man of Blood’. One of the novel’s themes is the tension between Nayler’s determination to apprehend – and if necessary ...”

“... Abyss, there is no evidence that Voltaire ever said any such thing. An English writer, Beatrice Hall, writing under a male pseudonym in 1906, suggested that Voltaire’s attitude to the burning of a book written by Helvétius might be summed up: ‘How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! “I disapprove of what you say, but ...”

“... He notes rather than tests Keith Thomas’s interlinked suggestions that some members of Tudor and Stuart society rarely went to church and that ‘the hold of organised religion … was never so complete as to leave no room for rival systems of belief.’ Little attention is paid to the opinions that landed humbler parishioners in the ecclesiastical courts ...”