"To put it bluntly, it was seen as morally permissible to bomb the natives in the hills of Africa, but reprehensible t…"

"When he [Michael Faraday] demonstrated his apparatus [dynamo] to His Majesty's Government, the prime minister, Sir Ro…"

"England was a the height of her powers as an empire; the virtually instantaneous transmission of information to colon…"

"It was obvious that he couldn't ask any pilot to put his aircraft intentionally into a spin in order to test his theo…"

"The ground staff, who didn't quite trust him because of his Germanic accent, kept an unofficial but firm limit on the…"

"Taylor evidently got this scenario from his friend Lord Beaverbrook, who was present, but Dowding later said that the…"

"Robert Wright, in his biography of Dowding, writes: "When the question was raised [after the war] about the curious d…"

"It pulled Newall to his feet; he sent it on to the other chiefs of staff with his strong recommendation, adding that …"

"Like many West Indians of my generation, I have been reading C. L. R. James’s Black Jacobins over and over for many y…"

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