“... and Suffolk. They came through the disorder of the 15th century intact, swore allegiance to Henry Tudor, gained security of property and found knighthoods, seats in Parliament and minor positions at court. In the 16th century another Clement, a sea captain and courtier, built a great fortune from what was more or less piracy. The reckless strain in the ...”

“... of scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, commissioned by Boydell from painters including Reynolds and Henry Fuseli. The gallery was an important force behind surging 18th-century bardolatry, and part of Boydell’s broader project to encourage British history painting. The paintings were not for sale but served to attract punters (or ‘patrons of native ...”

“... a few bombers were guillotined, others responded with further attacks. On 12 February 1894, Émile Henry, a 21-year-old friend of Fénéon, planted an explosive in Café Terminus at Gare Saint-Lazare, killing one person and injuring twenty. On 4 April another bomb tore up the Restaurant Foyot across from the Senate, and this time Fénéon was a suspect. After ...”

“... cut into sheets. Early European paper bears the marks of this messy process. On a letter sent to Henry III by Berengaria of Castile sometime between 1217 and 1230, the oldest piece of paper to survive in an English archive, it’s still possible to make out the undissolved textile threads. Paper took its medieval European name from the papyrus of the ...”

“... man in undiversified surroundings.’ It is as if he was appalled by the magic of words and the power it gave to those who could bend it to their own unscrupulous purpose; terrified, as a master of style himself, of letting such a lethal, combustible force out of his hands and loose on a credulous world. Such sensitivity, together with his Jewishness and ...”

“... Sepulture, issued by Chadwick’s General Board of Health and given him by his brother-in-law, Henry Austin, a sanitary engineer. The document presented yet again the horrors of overcrowded urban graveyards, a subject with which Dickens was familiar, having the magnum opus of G.A. Walker (‘Walker of the Graveyards’) already on his bookshelves. On 27 ...”

“... necessary to minorities, and even when well-off lacking the measure of wealth that gives power (‘we thought that once we had the same rights all our problems were over. What happened was that we retained 80 per cent of the historical problem we had, and that now we also had to deal with all of those things associated with being white’). Neither ...”

“... to do. Nor did Vann think that a strategy of attrition, the use of America’s superior fire power to sap Viet Cong and North Vietnamese fighting capacity, was an effective approach to the war. Instead, he believed it essential to win the sympathy of South Vietnamese peasants by ‘capturing the social revolution from the Communists and harnessing it to ...”

“... in public attitudes. But, despite the cheering crowd, it seems premature to proclaim a new era for Henry Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling. Tears, as Anne Vincent-Buffault suggests, have a rhetoric as well as a history, and shedding them while making war is not the same thing as weeping at the loss of a race – or even in defence of your wife, as Muskie did in ...”

“... Hundred and Eleven’ she foretold with striking accuracy the gradual decline of English economic power, the ‘Midas Dream’, and its departure to America, from whose prosperous shores nostalgic tourists would return to visit ‘the gray ruin and the mouldering stone’ of England. Her essay ‘On the Pleasure to be extracted front Objects of ...”

“... by John Rut, captain of the Mary of Guildford, and sent, courtesy of another vessel, to King Henry VIII. It was an espionage report on the French competition, and recorded that Rut found 14 fishing vessels already in St John’s harbour: two Portuguese, and 12 French. After centuries of skirmishing, of treaties, of trade-offs that led the French (the ...”

“... the Town Palace are grand, but they were built by a Duke of Lower Bavaria who had just lost his power to the Munich Wittelsbach. He is diverting himself by playing at Gonzagas, but you would not know it. His palaces are opaque. It is as if one needs two contrasted concepts for what usually comes under the term ‘genre’. One would be for an institution of ...”

“... never agreed. Nor was there ever a common policy on the strategic and tactical employment of air power. Only in March 1940 did the partners formally undertake not to seek a separate peace, which in itself suggests that in both countries there were politicians who might still contemplate negotiating terms with Hitler. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 1939, Gamelin ...”

“... the extraordinary and, Colombo believes, essentially religious appeal of the investment adviser Henry Granville. Colombo has written an earnest and timely book, but not a good one. Although he offers a number of intelligent and provocative observations, he provides nothing in the way of proof for any of them; his argument consists largely of a series of ...”

“... his work. It comes as no great surprise that the central character of Cuts is a modern novelist, Henry Babbacombe, who is also a lecturer at a provincial university. Or that the story is about Babbacombe being drawn – part forced, part enticed – into the capricious commercial machinery of the major TV serial, as Bradbury has been, and that therefore it ...”