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“... since Grigson is a Little Englander, ‘the mob of Lowlanders who write in Lallans’ (for Hugh Macdiarmid, as for many others, he has a ferocious aversion that is never explained), and ‘the mob of Welshmen who write in Welsh ...’ At any rate, and oddly enough, France – specifically the France of Ronsard, from whom he translates four poems, two ...”

“... wrote to Morton Fullerton (9 August 1901), ‘and not even an intellectual one; you do it too much honour. It was a mere trade-accident, tout au plus – an incident of technics, pure and simple.’ As a writer – and this is part of the same point – no one could be less ‘Freudian’, which would also be true of him as a man. In 1910-11 he suffered an ...”

“... at least White and Tyacke can find common ground in their emphasis on the 1620s: a decade which Hugh Trevor-Roper has compared, in his vivid re-creation of its effect upon the generation which lived through it, to the 1930s. In politics, Arminianism was essentially a 1620s issue. It remained politically inflammatory in the 1630s, but by then Laud’s ...”

“... the state finally got round to recognising the only physical hero of the story, a decent guy named Hugh Thompson who saw what was going on, landed his helicopter between Lieutenant Calley’s killing-squads and the remnant of the inhabitants, called for back-up and drew his sidearm. His citation had taken thirty years to come through. It was intended as part ...”

“... the miraculous cures that the catacomb saints performed, the festivals organised in their honour and the horror they provoked in generations of Protestant tourists. He also shows how the cult collapsed. In the 19th century most of the catacomb saints ended up hidden away in cabinets that normally remained shut or were outsourced into the private ...”

“... the 19th century, sanitising and sugaring the Bard out of recognition. In the 20th century, led by Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish intellectuals hit back, denouncing the Burns cult for its smugness, sexism and wholesale distortion: It has denied his spirit to honour his name. It has denied his poetry to laud his amours. It has ...”

“... and leadership in 1969. Among those who passed through the orchestra are Brian Eno, Michael Nyman, Hugh Shrapnel, Howard Skempton and Tilbury himself. A significant number of artists and musicians, some with little musical training and no ability to sight-read, were attracted both by Cardew’s charisma and by his desire to escape from what were perceived ...”

“... that the Toynbee-Murray connection might merit a minor place in any revised version of Annan’s honour roll.It is noticeable that Toynbee has more to say about her male than her female ancestors, an emphasis that may simply reflect the realities of educational advantage and career opportunities over the past century and a half. Her mother, Anne Powell, came ...”

“... is himself, and the third person here is fraught with all the haughty indignation of a Mrs Honour even as he strains to mimic the uppish accents of her creator. About Fielding himself he said this: ‘Poor Fielding! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said ...”

“... As for trusting one’s memory unaided: I was rung up some years ago by a researcher working on Hugh Dalton’s diaries to ask if I was the young person referred to in Dalton’s account of a Sunday lunch party at Harry Walston’s house at Newton in the early Fifties. Oh yes, I said brightly, and prattled on for several minutes about the pink ...”

“... accept. ‘If ever defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory, it was the miners’ strike,’ Hugh Scanlon – by then, Lord Scanlon – told Routledge. ‘I think they could have got a settlement with honour. I think when you say, “We’re going to bring the government down”, or you say, “Not one man must be ...”

“... a portfolio of Fifteen Drawings by Wyndham Lewis (1919), Ara Vos Prec by Eliot (1920), and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and Cantos 17-27 by Pound (1927). The son of immigrant Jews in the East End, he was a conscientious objector when he met Butts, who was working for an anti-conscription organisation. They married two years later, had a daughter named ...”

“... scholar. There were flirtations with academia, including an episode acting as stalking horse for Hugh Trevor-Roper in his pursuit of the regius professorship. Overall his relationship to the academy was yet another of those ambivalent connections that characterised him. Much as he affected to dislike the idea of a university post he was more than once ...”

“... boxer, was rehearsed in the building. Miriam Makeba, Athol Fugard, Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela were among the artists who came and went.Cole must have taken these photos in the 1960s, when the prospects for Black artists were bleak. ‘Remnants,’ he wrote on his draft chapter folder, ‘of culture, creativity, and of all the things they ...”

“... cloistered rooms, and the works of the classics’.He also joined the Fabians, encouraged by Hugh Dalton, the postwar Labour chancellor. He took it seriously, did a lot of reading, especially about the Webbs’ Minority Report on Poor Law reform, and in the summer of 1910, at the end of his year as president of the Cambridge society, he and Dudley Ward ...”