“... and her mother’s world which Henry’s first annulment crisis represented. Elizabeth’s mother, Anne Boleyn, was equal to Katherine in stubbornness and her definite superior in intelligence: the only one of Henry’s six wives whose marriage to the king was regularly called her ‘reign’ by contemporaries. That she had a mind of her own and was not afraid ...”

“... the Sixties. But with the advent of the era we now call ‘The Sixties’, beginning with Flower Power in 1967, and continuing through the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and événements of 1968, a new culture emerged. That culture was socially insistent and extroverted. If you were ambitious you joined a corporation; if you were dreamy you joined a ...”

“... poets. They belong to a debate, a dialectic; we know how to think about politics, epistemology, power and language, in productive ways that … make these poets mean for us. A hermeneutics has evolved. Not so with the female poets. We are discovering who they are, but there are few ways of talking about them. Armstrong was writing about the Romantic ...”

“... in 1970, he was walking to a bar in Minneapolis one evening in the mid-1950s with his second wife, Anne, the two of them joking back and forth, when Berryman volunteered that he ‘hated the name Mabel more than any other female name’. Anne decided Henry was the name she found ‘unbearable’. For a long time ...”

“... The present book avoids such manichean pitfalls, but confronts their methodological preconditions. Anne Salmond, a Pakeha anthropologist at the University of Auckland, has spent much time with Maori informants, modern and sophisticated people – there are some formidably effective Maori jurists – who have communicated to her a sense of the ...”

“... of 1689-91, and the risings of 1708, 1719 and 1745-46 – was uniquely not a theatre of European power politics. Under the terms of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) the French had been forced to withdraw their support for the Jacobites. The Stuart court in exile had removed itself from Saint Germain to Bar-Le-Duc in the autonomous Duchy of ...”

“... philosophy was its fundamental irrelevance to the main task of acquiring – or re-acquiring – power. The heady idealism that characterised a great deal of 18th and 19th-century political thought, in Britain and Europe, was itself an index of the distance between such thought (and such thinkers) and the centres of political control. In the gap between ...”

“... Thereafter she slows, to take us through the standard episodes: the births of Charles and Anne; the death of King George VI; the Coronation and the Townsend affair; the marriages and divorces of Princess Margaret, Princess Anne, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York; the fire at Windsor Castle, the annus ...”

“... the household going while Branwell degenerated and died; she did what she could for Emily and then Anne as, in quick succession, they died too; and then, after years spent caring for her misanthropic father, she married his curate and died in pregnancy. As far as Barker is concerned, this is a grossly misleading rendition, a compound of slanders, distortions ...”

“... self-denying ordinance is becoming increasingly hard to sustain: James Sharpe’s Bewitching of Anne Gunter includes the story of Elizabeth Stile, executed in 1579, told, for what is I think the first time in modern scholarly literature, as if she believed herself to be a witch. The modern history of the witch-hunt begins with a series of books published ...”

“... painted in the same style. The Duchess of Devonshire, the Viscountess Melbourne and the sculptor Anne Seymour Damer stand together over a cauldron as the witches in Macbeth by Daniel Gardner (c.1775), women pretending to be actresses pretending to be witches. Overwhelming the exhibition is a huge copy done by Reynolds’s studio of Sarah Siddons as the ...”

“... with magnificent sable rosettes … Its head gave the impression of great solidity, compact power, and it had, from certain angles, an almost reptilian look, and I felt I wanted to stare at it for ever.’ He released the safety catch, and prepared to kill it. At that moment, they heard the voices of local estate workers passing on a nearby road, and ...”

“... one begins to worry. The authors work in television studios rather than laboratories (although Anne Moir earned a doctorate in genetics long ago), and Brain Sex reads like a pop-science best-seller – repetitive, simplistic, cute, with the odd blooper making it hard to trust the authors’ wilder flights. Does the larger number of connections between ...”

“... The first of the summer blockbusters is with us. For weeks, Carrie-Anne Moss has glowered beautifully from posters on the Underground, ‘21.05.03’, the release date of The Matrix Reloaded, stamped across her coat. Even cooler, a poster of incomprehensible green computer code resolves holographically into Keanu Reeves glowering beautifully as you walk past ...”

“... royal jamborees, preferably in warm countries. ‘Among his achievements was persuading Princess Anne to transform her expression of totemic disdain into a human smile.’Yet the photos themselves aren’t entirely silent about their makers. You can see the sensibility as it’s been at work on site and in the dark room. Philip Jones Griffiths presents a ...”