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“... the kind of environment from which they arose. For a start, as White shows, building on work by Mary Beard, these 900 letters are not the flotsam of chance survival they seem to be. Someone has edited and organised the collections that have survived, and that someone, according to White’s compelling argument, had a definite plan in mind when he set ...”

“... Cemetery. Search for ‘Oliver Rawlings’ and the first thing you will see is an account of Mary Beard retweeting his comment, ‘You filthy old slut. I bet your vagina is disgusting.’ He received so much abuse that Beard ended up writing him a character reference. ‘He is going to find it hard to get a ...”

“... at the centre of the first half of the 16th century Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop with the beard who created the Church of England. Cranmer’s beard dominates the cover. Instead of the familiar Flicke portrait of a clean-shaven prelate, MacCulloch or his editor (I’d bet it was MacCulloch’s choice) has preferred ...”

“... not even to secure the suffrage, have they been so abused, condemned and antagonised.’ Or as Mary Beard put it last year, ‘We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women’s silence.’Trump harped on the theme that Clinton had been in power for thirty years, seeming to equate her with feminism or liberalism or some other inchoate ...”

“... by Macrobius in the Saturnalia provided them with many interesting facts and stories, which, as Mary Beard and others have shown, reveal a great deal about the Roman sense of religion and history even if they are not literally reliable. These were helpfully assembled by none other than Poliziano, Botticelli’s supposed adviser, in his lectures of 1482 ...”

“... on amenities once held in common. What is now at stake is the citizens’ right to civic space.Mary Beard, 26 October 1989 Mrs Thatcher’s arrival at the top, a decade and a half ago, instituted a more scorching erasure. Discrediting, and if possible disavowing, the prime ministership of Edward Heath was one of the earliest tasks of the Thatcherite ...”

“... on the map with a sleek, leonine body and the face of a surprised-looking man, with a short beard, wearing a crown. The fabled sets of teeth aren’t visible. In the upper reaches you can find the bonnacon – a benign beast with the paws of a leopard and the body of a bull, its horns curving inwards. The bonnacon is shown expelling faeces, a feat ...”

“... most aggressive form of cancer – a death sentence.’ The last-ditch effort, ‘a true Hail Mary’, was the injection of an artificial virus into his brain. Hunter sat by Beau’s hospital bed, they watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Beau, who had stepped down as Delaware’s attorney general, talked about running for governor in 2016. He died on the ...”

“... Europe. At the end of the decade, sitting in the Havana hotel with his writing paper and ham, his beard greyed, Hemingway began turning what he saw of the war into the novel about a dynamiter, a girl and a band of partisans. Reynolds’s eloquent final pages look forward to this moment, the starting-point of his concluding volume. They brood, too, over the ...”

“... profile was of Jane Barnell, a 69-year-old sideshow performer who made a living from her 13½-inch beard: ‘She despises pity and avoids looking into the eyes of the people in her audiences; like most freaks, she has cultivated a blank, unseeing stare.’ After Diane Arbus had read McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon, the book in which these pieces appeared, she ...”

“... in the 15th and 16th centuries, appears in art as a crucified woman with long blonde hair and a beard. To preserve her virginity and avoid an unwanted marriage, she prayed for a deformity that would keep suitors away and grew a beard overnight, only to reap crucifixion for her pains. (In England she was called St ...”

“... facial type as well as the expression is one you see in news pictures from the Middle East. The beard is thin and fluffy, the eyebrows are raised in a puzzled inverted V, the mouth is half open. The expression registers disquiet as well as pain. Pictures like this that were means are now treated as ends. In exhibitions it is hard to get a feeling of the way ...”

“... who look after their children and clean their houses. One of the reasons Barbara Taylor thinks Mary Wollstonecraft rewards our attention two hundred years after her death is that Wollstonecraft’s fervid opposition to sexism was based on a ‘root and branch’ egalitarianism not easily compromised by ‘firm class and race loyalties’. Taking close ...”

“... the old ones, Amis exacts authorial revenge by calling them Trevor and Tracy and giving Trevor a beard.) Each of the old people embodies a version of the uneasy relationship between past and present selves, summed up in Marigold, who at 73 thinks she can pass for 60 but actually looks like ‘a very, very well-preserved 73’. In the gap between memory and ...”