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We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned. Kenneth Scott Latourette

History Memory Christianity Has-Been Something Recorded Know Passed Spread Tradition Been Repeatedly Questioned Accuracy The History Of Much Transmitted Whose

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. Kenneth Scott Latourette

Faith Christ Spread Continue After Century Third

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting. Kevin Brownlow

Home Brilliant Painting Silent Some Directors Take Never Like Forced Felt Sound Era Were Up Being Sculptor

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing. Kevin Brownlow

Cinema Pure Sharing Napoleon Designed

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries. Linda Colley

Scale Has-Been Degrees Rates New Remotely Globalisation Been Centuries Differing

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific. Linda Colley

Power Revolution Relations Cost Only Colonies Rethink Also Forced Trade American Influenced Pacific Asia American Revolution Slave Slavery Britain

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile. Linda Colley

Good Become Luck Good Deeds Married Charitable Pretty Kings Above Had Supportive Look Princes Limited Females Queens Been Discreet Fertile Very Expected Quietly Roles Granted Who Deeds Royal

Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic. Linda Colley

War World Safety Seriously Argument First Own Our Once Easier Introduced Unpatriotic Threatening Empire Became First World First World War Continental Anti-War Denounce Began Any Shores Confined Irresponsible Being Much Inherently Agitation Europe Wars Conscription Britain World War

Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it. Linda Colley

Long Trouble Few Like Proverbial American Room Notice Large Elephant

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things. Linda Colley

Sometimes Georgian America Flamboyant Expensive Elections Things Britain

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it. Linda Colley

Free Changed Way India Sought Govern Did Uprising Viewed British

Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with people in transit to, or from, their home town. Linda Colley

Day Thanksgiving Home People Fly Before Every Airport Weekend Never Town Because Crammed After Bursting Transit Home Town Guaranteed

I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents - who had little money - made the most of this. Linda Colley

Great Architecture Money Walls Made Free Parents First Spent Ancient Visiting City Some Born Stuart Had Contains Most Cathedral Well Years Five Roman Little Century Little Money Who Things Early Medieval

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan reasons, what kind of history and interpretations are on offer to children. Linda Colley

History Political Kind Able Facilitate Partisan Does Encourage Governments Dictate Offer Children Want Them Should Teaching Reasons Interpretations

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome. Linda Colley

Beginning Every Other Claim Ancient Ancient Rome Clear Empire Like Existed Western Very Expansion American Taste May Rome Mantle Inherited Reasons Appetite Fundamental Ever

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism. Linda Colley

History Both Imperialism Always Isolationism Fervent American American History Fierce British

For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system towards a presidential one. This is emphatically not, as is sometimes argued, simply a function of Tony Blair's personal ambition. The shift towards a more presidential style was already visible under Margaret Thatcher. Linda Colley

Good Sometimes Style Ambition Presidential Visible Respects System Some More Blair Argued Simply Towards Shift Personal Thatcher Moving Moving Away Ill Function Away Margaret Margaret Thatcher Britain Tony

Irrespective of their party affiliation or wishes on the matter, those governing from 10 Downing Street now have to take on much of the aura and role of head of state. And this is bound to have heavy consequences for their family. Linda Colley

British prime ministers and prime ministers' spouses and children are together becoming ever more like first families. They need to be given sufficient resources and personnel to enable them to carry out their shifting roles efficiently, decently, and safely. Linda Colley

Together First Shifting Resources Out Carry Ministers Given More Prime Prime Ministers Like Safely Enable Becoming Spouses Families Efficiently Roles Children Decently Them Personnel Ever Sufficient British Need

Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently. Linda Colley

India Easy Rather Mass Abysmal Look How However Covered Left Behind Them View Illiteracy Appear Railroads Differently Levels British

Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When domestic opinion is acutely divided, however, war can be politically lethal for its makers. Linda Colley

A vital part of Trump's appeal was his promise to make America emphatically great again, staunching the haemorrhage of jobs and investment to China and Mexico, and cutting back on handouts to NATO and illegal migrants. Linda Colley

Great NATO Back Jobs Promise Vital Part Investment Make His Trump Mexico America Again China Cutting Illegal Appeal

Any kind of new U.K. federal system would almost certainly demand the creation of a written constitution. Properly drafted, such a document could, among many things, pin down more effectively the proper dimensions of prime ministerial power. Linda Colley

Constitution Power Creation Down Dimensions System Kind Ministerial Would Proper Properly More Could Federal Written Almost Demand Prime New Document Pin Effectively Any Certainly Many Among Things Drafted

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