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“... of nuptiality, Wrigley and Schofield show that the source of the dramatic population rise from about 1750 lay in a change in marital habits. People began marrying earlier, having children earlier, and having them over a longer time-span: the answer, in other words, lay in fertility, not primarily in mortality. For those, like myself, who are ...”

“... 28’, and that ‘only’ shows how the maximum age for precocity in poets has been allowed to rise: one can be ‘young’ and ‘promising’ up to 40, a relief for late starters. But Andrew Elliott, in the Trio 4 collection, is ‘only’ 24: the best of these three Northern Irish poets, he is a mellifluous teller of fairytales, though in a downbeat ...”