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...up" in latter times, and along with it the paradox, very puzzling to the coachman's mind, that there were men of old family and large estate who voted for the Bill. He did not grapple with the paradox; he let it pass, with all the discreetness of an experienced theologian or learned scholiast, preferring to point his whip at some object which could raise no questions....

...history). Find out about Brighton and why it had become fashionable at this juncture – at a guess, it must have been fashionable for the prince to have ended up there (start with histories of Brighton, and eighteenth- century, early nineteenth-century and modern guidebooks to the city). Find out something about the history of the building of the Pavilion (again, try...

...history. It emerges in the Victorian period when scholars like Max Muller and Cornelius Tiele set out to categorise religion in the same way that Linnaeus produced a taxonomy of the natural world. Muller and Tiele were not neutral observers, however. They were very much a part of the colonial project. And so the data they produced was of nations that were being subjugated...

...family home of David Hume. Hume was a pivotal figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, and his imminent death was widely anticipated. The crowds were anxious to know how he was facing up to his coming demise. Hume is best known today as a historian (through his History of England of 1754–62) and a philosopher. His Treatise of Human Nature is regarded by many as one of the...