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This Little Britain

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by Harry Bingham


  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

  The Lieutenant’s Lover

  Glory Boys

  The Sons of Adam

  Sweet Talking Money

  The Money Makers

  Copyright

  First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Fourth Estate

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  Illustrations © Robin Lawrie (Beehive Illustration)

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