Page 273, ‘no man is by nature …’; also Boswell: quoted in Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade, Picador, 1997
Page 274, ‘I sat down disconsolate …’: Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade, 1808. Available online
The Reluctant Father
Page 286, ‘There was no deliberate intention …’: Bernard Porter, The Lion’s Share, 4th edn, Pearson, 2004
Bombay Direct
Page 291, migration: data from Hatton & Williamson, Global Migration and the World Economy, MIT, 2005
Soldiers and Slaves
Page 298, ‘The irony that an empire …’: Simon Schama, A History of Britain, vol. 2, BBC, 2001
The British Way of Death
Page 301, ‘Left to themselves the passengers …’: Evelyn Waugh, When the Going Was Good, Penguin, 1990
Page 304, ‘The lip of the escarpment …’: Peter Fleming, The Fate of Admiral Kolchak, Hart-Davis, 1963
Yobs
Page 308, ‘an honest man …’: César de Saussure, A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II, John Murray, 1902
Page 308, ‘there is no country in the world …’: unknown diplomat, A Relation of the Island of England, tr. Charlotte Sneyd, Camden Society, 1847
Page 308, ‘Nobody is provincial …’: Louis Simond, Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, 1815. Available online
Page 310, murder: data from Manuel Eisner, ‘Long-Term Historical trends in Violent Crime’, in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, vol. 30. Available online
Clouds of Feculence
Page 312, ‘Sir, I traversed this day …’: Michael Faraday, The Times, July 1855. Available online
Greeks
Page 321, ‘After dinner all the youth …’: William Fitzstephen, History of London, 1175; quoted in Roger Hutchinson, Empire Games, Mainstream Publishing, 1996
Page 323, ‘the assembly of a lawless rabble …’: Derbyshire Council, quoted in David Goldblatt, The Ball is Round, Penguin, 2006
Page 323, ‘the game was formerly much in vogue …’: Joseph Strutt, ibid.
Very Fine Linen
Page 331, ‘A bottle green and claret-coloured …’: Quoted in Ian Kelly, Beau Brummell, Hodder & Stoughton, 2005
Page 333, ‘An elegant then requires …’: ibid.
Conclusion
Page 346, ‘Britain, moreover …’: David Landes, The Wealth & Poverty of Nations, Little, Brown, 1998
Also by Harry Bingham
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