"In a history book, you can't imagine, you can't speculate, you can't conjure new worlds because that would ruin the h…"

"Large families were really in fashion [in Victorian England], they were seen as a status symbol, they were seen as an…"

"A country with a sense of purpose should encourage free speech and debate, but instead we have a Conservative whip on…"

"We have some of the greatest photographs of all time cemented in our [the United Kingdom's] national identity, but we…"

"History is so important. It explores and tells us who we are. We should be doing more of it as a country, not less."

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."