“... Sir C. Aubrey Smith who, as in many films before and during the Second War, stood for probity and honour (though with a twinkle).5 July. Anna Massey dies. She was always fun and she got better as an actress as she got older, though I only worked with her twice. None of the obituaries mentions the performance of hers that I best remember, when she portrayed ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... neighbours:God shall be truly known; and those about herFrom her shall read the perfect ways of honour,And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.It isn’t clear that these lines were intended as a wholehearted endorsement of nostalgia for the old queen and her times. Only a decade after her funeral, there may have been as much pathos in reflecting ...”

“... Clare as a poet of immediate impressions and a child of nature, which, as Bate says, failed to honour his ‘breadth of reading and depth of formal artfulness’. Poems, Descriptivewas well received: both the Eclectic Review – a radical journal – and the reactionary Anti-Jacobin Reviewpraised it. Clare was received at Milton Hall by the ...”

“... celebrated his 50th anniversary on the podium, and he conducted a special jubilee Prom in his own honour on 5 October, the second half of which was broadcast, and which concluded with ‘Pomp and Circumstance’. But before the Second World War, there were no last night remarks from the conductor: Wood disliked public speaking, and at the end of the final ...”

“... with determination and single-mindedness. He returned to Ireland, spoke at a few gatherings in his honour and fell in love with Kathleen Daly, the 20-year-old niece of one of his comrades. Soon he went to New York, where he continued to conspire against British rule in Ireland. Kathleen followed him and they got married. Having come from a large and noisy ...”

“... fellow and much admired for his singing. His son Stanislaus reported that at a gala dinner in his honour before he left Cork a leading English tenor said ‘he would willingly have given two hundred pounds there and then to be able to sing that aria as my father had sung it.’ In Dublin he sang at concerts and attended recitals where he heard the great ...”

“... the English branch of Amnesty, and, last but not least, the British Parliament. The historian Hugh Thomas had put forward to the House of Lords a motion asking the Cuban Government that Valladares be set free. This is the same Lord Thomas who in his history of Cuba wrote that the New York Times – specifically, an article written by the late Herbert ...”

“... the direction of Maurice Thomson and associates of such later fame as Thomas Rainsborough and Hugh Peter; and a naval rampage round the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean, from Maracaibo to Jamaica to Guatemala, in collusion with Warwick. Once the fighting in England broke out, the same syndicate moved into control of the financial and Naval machinery ...”

“... application in January 1963.The following year, Labour came to power in London. Before his death, Hugh Gaitskell had rallied the party to vigorous opposition to British entry into the EEC, arguing that it would mean the end of a thousand years as an independent nation. Harold Wilson could not make a speedy break with this position, but by 1967 British ...”