Saturday, 24 November 2018

I think of old British colonialists, bred to authority and the wide horizons, living out their pensioned lives in semi-detached houses of cramped suburbia

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At the other end of life I have often met exiles from their own times. I think of old British colonialists, bred to authority and the wide ...
Friday, 23 November 2018

Possesses still, at least for romantics like me, a fragrant sense of what might-have-been

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The most appealing aspect of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, at least in retrospect, was its European cosmopolitanism. It had few black , brow...
Friday, 26 October 2018

would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse.'

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There were 10,000 stout fellows, as Daniel Defoe had written earlier in the century in The Behaviour of Servants, who would spend their last...
Friday, 19 October 2018

The model for a husband

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A Member of Parliament, with a small house near Eaton Square, with a moderate income, and a liking for committees, who would write a pamphl...
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...