Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!