The Spirit of London

If your appetite has been whetted to discover more about John Wilkes, you should immediately get hold of the utterly brilliant biography by Arthur Cash.

Richard Abels has written the most helpful and amusing book about Alfred the Great.

Anyone wishing to know more about Boudica should look at the work of Miranda Aldhouse-Green.

sauntered swayingly on stage

It is the rubbing of two sticks that makes the flame

the appetite for fame was nearly glutted

With the benefit of hindsight

acceded to Clementine’s entreaties

If you were a flop at school, and you couldn’t handle maths, let alone Latin, Churchill is your model. He is the perpetual Chancellor of the University of Life.

all truly great men have an element of comicality about them