![]() But there are quiet and unexpected entries, too: the origin of the word “Luddite,” the publication of 1066 and All That (a book he greatly admires), the inventive 18th-century farmer Jethro Tull. Many of the selections offer no surprise: the Charge of the Light Brigade, the reign of Queen Victoria, the abdication of Edward VIII. ![]() He writes about nasty stuff floating in the Thames, and the squeamish should avoid his graphic paragraphs about the brutal breast-cancer surgery, sans anesthesia, endured by novelist Fanny Burney in 1811. Johnson’s dictionary, the rise of trade unionism) with the alarming and/or disgusting. Crippen), the culturally or socially significant (Dr. He juxtaposes the sublime (Waterloo, the Battle of Britain) with the criminal (highwayman Dick Turpin, murderer Dr. ![]() Veteran historian and biographer Lacey ( Grace, 1994, etc.) maintains the appealing conversational style of his two earlier installments. The conclusion of an entertaining three-volume hopscotch through English history, this one taking us from John Locke to Francis Crick. ![]()
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