Sunday, 23 September 2018

I hope to see all the Protestants fry in theire own grease beefore Michaelmas next

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At that time [the beginning of the reign of James II] a limner was imployed to beautyfy the Parish church at Ellesmeare. This Clarke went to...
Saturday, 22 September 2018

Unfit in cricketing ability so much as to tie up Boycott's bootlaces

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Yorkshire were involved in another of those internal disputes which have been so much a part of their recent history. A clash between Ray I...
Friday, 21 September 2018

And there was Warne, bowling beautifully with a method thought to have been relegated to the museum

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Shortly after lunch on the first day the Edgbaston Test in 1993, Shane Warne was bowing leg-breaks to Alec Stewart, who had momentarily dis...
Thursday, 20 September 2018

He has most unwarrantably abused the privilege which all politicians have of being ugly

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Not content to deride his intelligence, hostile publications focused on his appearance. "Lincoln is the leanest, lankest, most ungainl...
Wednesday, 19 September 2018

A relationship which was at odds long before women were given the vote

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Cricket and family life have never been easy bedfellows. A relationship which was at odds long before women were given the vote appears to ...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018

An arcane world - a world of averages, aggregates and algorithms - suddenly became accessible

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When Romeo laid eyes on Juliet he gushed: "I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." A million cricket nuts felt much the sam...
Friday, 17 August 2018

The siding became a sea wall holding back the waves of housing

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A few steps on and the ground gave way on either side, giving the impression of being on an elevated causeway. To my left, through the bare...