"Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil int…"

"Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wa…"

"Lesser historians, timid or inhibited, aimed at correctness; Hill had wider ends to serve. He has served that cause w…"

"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…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"