"It sometimes seems to me, with a mixture of admiration and despair, that almost any question one may raise about cast…"

"Nowadays, to call anything ‘medieval’ is itself an insult, while to call it ‘feudal’ is ten times more offensive; and…"

"Few subjects in English history have been studied more and for longer than the Norman Conquest, and few have been mor…"

"I have happy memories of the Round Room at the Public Record Office in the 1950s, with the large fire occasionally ma…"

"One would like to say de mortuis nil nisi bonum, but a friend may be allowed to offer a little criticism. He was not …"

"Brown unashamedly proclaimed himself an "old" historian in terms of shunning trendy topics and approaches. He refused…"

"Allen Brown's work encapsulates the slow drift from military to symbolic interpretation [of castles]."

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"