Helen Sews

“Doctor, you make abstrusities appear very elementary,” he said. “On the contrary, Colonel, the truth is that you argue the elementary into the abstrusity. See you tomorrow.”
― E. Radford, Murder Isn't Cricket

“Through and beyond the period of Roman domination, vessels plied Atlantic waters. By the end of the seventh century bulk trade of minerals and grain, the sort of interaction we would recognise as maritime trade, was a thing of the long distant past.”
― Max Adams, The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria

“In his first recorded mention of Wellington, therefore, Napoleon got his name wrong.12”
― Andrew Roberts, Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel