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British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery. Kate Williams
Passion Clothes Tea Our Tried No Desire Had Unstoppable However Sell Chinese Them Much Desire British
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church. Kate Williams
Property Church First British Museum Our Rather Real Than Public Monarch British Museum
Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed. Kate Williams
Looking Else Papers Telling Phrase Someone Archives Through Missed Days Come Piles Revelations Private Historical Even Homes Letter Letters
My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s. Kate Williams
Old Meet Unmarried Until She Welsh Quite Grandfather Grandmother Early
One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights. Kate Williams
Life Me Woman Better Real Life Think Fatter Television Onscreen Observed Lights Look Real Came Lecture Up Than Much
I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular. Kate Williams
History People Amazing Young Enjoy Incredible Way TV Window Particular Offers Young People Really Watching Watching Tv Presenting
When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour. Kate Williams
World Favour Crowned Since Female Up Norman Sixth Lit Monarch Conquest Her Elizabeth
Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more. Kate Williams
Change Will Power Relevant One Thing Stay More Over Wishes Come Years Certain Monarchy Thing
Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices. Kate Williams
Buy Our High Throughout Prices Cheaply Bought Countries Empire Goods Subject Century Compelled Britain
Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk. Kate Williams
Nurse Characters Would Dreamed Horrible Through Never Redheads Passed Wet Precious Offspring Milk
Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents. Kate Williams
Daily History People Key Soil Understanding Analysis Our Has-Been Archaeology Tend Mainstream Goods Well Documents Stick Been Skeletons Migration Grave Lives Daily Lives
I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance. Kate Williams
Myself Considered Rather Like Look Read Always Odd Commenting Tweets Appearance
One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce. Kate Williams
History Problems Big Lust Elsewhere Our Has-Been Enthusiastic About Throughout Consumer Goods Been Overseas Friends Big Problems After Produce Less Things Buying Britain
I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world. Kate Williams
World National Maritime Collections Borrowing Part Over Revelation Am Exhibition Hamilton Planning Team Amount Museum Museums
I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders. Kate Williams
Women Queen Made Seen Country Way Those Hoped Born Written Leaders How Were Male Up Close Victoria Heir Who Elizabeth
Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III. Kate Williams
History Nine Way Secure Has-Been Only Throne Throughout George Been Children Victoria
Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine. Kate Williams
Christmas Passion Before White Machine Weddings Both Dates Were Huge Celebrations Times Victoria Victorian Low-Key Her Britain
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity. Kenneth Scott Latourette
Truth Men Validity Pursue Pursued Roads Hinduism None Still Exist Quest Which Many Basic Universal
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. Kenneth Scott Latourette
Religion History People Christianity Other More Had Geographic Spread Than Any The History Of Mankind Rooted Among Deeply Wider
The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene. Kenneth Scott Latourette
History Man Christianity Must Record Seek Scene Contemporary Particularly Concern Understand Human The History Of Interested Who Therefore
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. Kenneth Scott Latourette
Freedom Man Physical Physical Body Environment Conditioned Body Heredity
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. Kenneth Scott Latourette
Life Christianity Has-Been Thousands Thousands Of Years Development Been Years Human Which Planet Human Life Compared Recent
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. Kenneth Scott Latourette
Life Time Christianity Has-Been Thus Longer Course Been Contrasted Far Much Moment Brief Brief Moment Present
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. Kenneth Scott Latourette
Life God Suffering World Worth Christ Living Christianity Gave Way Worth Living He Opens Himself Fellowship Contrast Infinitely Loved Acknowledging While Eternal Eternal Life Who Presence
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. Kenneth Scott Latourette
Faith Assurance Marked Would Would-Be Immortality Pluralistic Give Empire Intellectually Which Ethically Search Satisfying
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. Kenneth Scott Latourette
World Christianity Mediterranean Earth India Total Only Outside Most Although Surface Persia Quite China Century Planet Twentieth Appeared Twentieth Century Population Fraction
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