We need to break free of our babyish way of looking at the past

The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from ...

It was a raucous scene, as Jacobean banquets tended to be. Men and women of the court, one observer recalled, “rolled in intoxication”. Even the most temperate had collapsed into “brutish delights”, l

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