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“... covered in earth’. Missing in the photographs is his hair colour. In 1896, crushing heavily on Sarah Bernhardt (she had dazzled him at her salon, reclining on a polar bear pelt next to her pet lion), Renard told her that before age and experience turned him blond, he was ‘a redhead, once, downright ginger and frankly vicious’. We hear about this in his ...”

“... that of the LCS, was Joseph Johnson, who was born in Everton in 1738, the son of a Baptist yeoman farmer and small landowner. At 14 he was bound apprentice to a London bookseller; in 1760, aged 22, he opened his own shop in Fenchurch Street; five years later he moved to Paternoster Row, the centre of the London book trade; and when, in 1770, the Paternoster ...”

“... a spreading ash tree, a milkmaid drives a few cows along a country road, to or from milking; a farmer trots away from us; and in the near distance a stagecoach is passing a dozen or so stacks of hop-poles. The first time I saw this picture it seemed to me a perfect evocation of the peace and plenty of georgic Kent, and a perfect example of what made Sandby ...”

“... from his status as a miser and exemplar of domesticity, George III appears in other prints as a farmer, an estate caretaker, a rider gratis in a well-appointed coach. At a certain point Gillray starts to identify the king with John Bull – a freeholder of uncertain description, rough without meanness, and if mentally thick, nonetheless a durable and ...”

“... the ten-year-old narrator and her destitute friends raid the abandoned home of a white farmer in search of food, stuffing themselves with whatever they can find. When they are full, they wander off in search of a bathroom, but there’s ‘a terrible reeking smell’ and ‘there, near the toilet we see the words Blak Power written in brown faeces ...”

“... the window, she has time only to save one object before fleeing: either a compact disc reissue of Sarah Bernhardt declaiming from Phèdre or an old sepia-tinted postcard of Eleonora Duse in D’Annunzio’s La Città morta. Quick! Which to choose? The Bernhardt has always been a source of deep hilarity: given the primitive acoustic equipment (the original ...”

“... for a mason and master-carpenter, however skilled, had a status roughly on a par with a farmer. They did not expect to cut a figure at court. Jones was the first professional architect, and the architect, as he explained, was a scholar and a gentleman, ‘well experienced’ not only in geometry and mathematics, but as Dee had argued, knowledgeable ...”

“... in 1932. Eight years later Garner went back to Texas a bitter man, to eke out his days as a pecan farmer; the vice-presidency had broken him. (It was Garner who compared the office to a pitcher of piss.) Rayburn thought Johnson would be making the same mistake, but Kennedy and Johnson between them talked him round. We know Johnson was serious because he asked ...”