"Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics
have got the upper hand."
Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933
"My God. History will condemn this period. It will condemn those who’ve sat back and kept their view to themselves, who haven’t stood up and tried to stop all this nonsense.”
Anna Soubry MP, 2017
Clio, Muse of History reading a scroll
Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 435-425 BC. From Boeotia. Louvre. Image: Wikipedia
“I don’t want to be known as the last prime minister of the United Kingdom”
attributed to Theresa May, Prime Minister, 2019
"When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais engraved on my heart".
Mary I, 1558, referring to the humiliating incompetence of losing England's last stronghold in continental Europe
Jan Swart van Groningen, Woman Lamenting by a Burning City 1550-55
Pen in black, brush in brown,
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Image: WGA
