First published in 2006. This book contributes towards a more just appreciation of the relative
importance of the different major social groups in the life of the country. It deals in the main …

… , continued, as with Hertford House off Park Lane which the Marquess of Hertford built in the
1850s largely to house his art collection, and which he left to his illegitimate son Sir Richard …

… The case against Marston has recently been forcefully stated by Richard Levin, who has
complained that many ingenious defences of the plays as subtle parodies will hold good only in …

… did not accept Thompson's conclusions, and their disagreements were acerbic, but nevertheless
published Thompson's report with his own disagreement noted; as a result Thompson …

By the purchase of the Lalla Rookh, a smart sailingyacht of 126 tons, Sir William Thomson
became acquainted with navigation in a new phase. All his life he had been fond of sailing; …

HE object of this book is to strengthen the evidence of the existence (in the Harleian MS. T
7368 at the British Museum) of three pages written by Shakespeare in his own hand as part of …

… Not that analysis stops here; in Thompson's work cases are used as … in Thompson's case,
much more often in the course of general or political writing than in the histories. Thompson's …

There is a sense in which this book is an experiment in historiography, although not of a kind
which is likely to meet with approval. Five or six years ago, when I was at the University of …

The forthcoming General Election will turn, we are told, mainly on the popularity of Imperialism.
If this be so, it is important that voters should make up their minds what Imperialism means…

… For I remember Richard (afterwards Lord) Haldane and his brother John walking home of a
… it goes on, down to the work of Sir John Soane and Sir Charles Barry, with no little pleasant …