“... everyone believed in fair shares for all. The loss of aristocratic power between the wars may have been the most important factor of all. In 1914 the structure of society was still astonishingly feudal, and Mr Turner speaks of regiments being raised by the nobility; Lord Derby, he says, caused ‘a storm in Labour circles when he announced that, after ...”

“... parts of the novels; the religions of India as Mother Revisited, in an acceptable version. It may seem odd that writers interested in the elimination of ego should write work that is relentlessly autobiographical. But this misses the point, in the sense that pure autobiography is really about somebody else, about someone who can be looked at in the same ...”

“... this is not your church; this is Mr Street’s; your church is farther down the road.’ It may well be asked why if the biographical approach to architecture is so inadequate it should be so predominant in historical studies. Probably the most important reason for its popularity in recent writings is that, although architectural history is generally ...”

“... of Jonestown which were still being put out by relatively detached, if naive observers as late as May 1978. For the most part Chapters Five and Six are a straight piece of journalistic impressionism: bits and pieces of documentary from Georgetown late 1978, a visit to the remnants of Jonestown along with other journalists, patches of interviews with ...”

“... narrative and publicly-known details of the author’s own life – though such a correspondence may be discernible – but the apparent attempt to claim credit and authority through the faithful rendering of real happenings, real responses. The story will be largely composed of gestures and speeches too trivial, inconsequent or banal to seem to merit ...”

“... version. Several reels are still missing, including some of the triptych scenes which Gance may have destroyed in a fit of despair. A tripartite image of the Bal des Victimes was among them, and from the brilliance of the single frames that remain one can imagine the impact it would have had. There are moments when total belief is suspended, but these ...”

“... to be replaced with someone to suit the occasion. That the Cup makes footballers less money-minded may be a blessing: that it does not make them more skill-minded is its chronic curse. City’s achievement in the first game was the destruction of Spurs’ potential constructiveness. How did they do it? Did their destructive skills overpower Tottenham’s ...”

“... and Louis XI. The broader Renaissance interest in Classical coins, cameos, medals and medallions may also have been a factor.Precisely when, and where, the miniature first broke free of the manuscript page is also unclear. What is not in doubt is that, by the mid-1520s, free-standing circular busts of royal sitters in watercolour on vellum, and encased in ...”

“... planet’s surface. As the Moon moves in its orbit, the shadow moves rapidly along a track that may be only a few miles across. Observers within this path of totality see the Sun completely obscured. Those on either side see a partial eclipse, with the Moon covering only part of the Sun’s disc.If the Moon orbited in the same plane as the Earth, there ...”

“... and rose oil for treating scars and crushed lilies for venomous snakebites. This list of plants may have extended beyond those found in the monastery garden, but locals still call Reichenau the ‘Gemüseinsel’ (‘vegetable island’), and claim that its horticultural tradition dates back to the Middle Ages.Walafrid’s most ambitious project, if the ...”

“... selling his dirty ‘athletic supporters’ and ‘Verbal Abuse Tapes’. Joel’s customers may be gay but he himself is not, as Mimi realises when his girlfriend, Nanette, shows up. (‘I knew he wasn’t a homosexual. I just knew it.’) Nanette takes Mimi to the Hellfire Club, a notorious downtown S&M haunt, where she passes a newly skinny Potts who ...”

“... of a straight red card, or a case of mistaken identity. The IFAB guidelines state that VAR ‘may assist the referee only in the event of a “clear and obvious error” or “serious missed incident”’ and that it must not be seen to ‘re-referee’ the game. The on-pitch referee is still the law: the video assistant referee can’t make a ...”

“... is a workers’ rights advocate who was first arrested in 2019. She was arrested again in May 2022 with her husband and accused of conspiring with two French tourists whom the Iranian government had detained as spies. Her family heard nothing for forty days. Later, she told them that she had been held in solitary confinement and harshly ...”

“... of the politics of the Ottoman house.Suleyman came to the throne in 1520, when he was 26. That may sound young, but he was in good company: Francis I, king of France since 1515, had been born in the same year as him, and Henry VIII (crowned in 1509) was three years older. Charles V was installed as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519 at the age of ...”

“... a means of communication between strangers. The traveller who gives his character to these novels may have come from the Eastern United States – as do Theroux himself and several of his narrators – but that isn’t important. This traveller brings next to nothing with him – none of the conventional assumptions or idiosyncrasies of the older generation ...”