I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
Peter AckroydThe English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
Peter AckroydAnd the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'
Peter AckroydThomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
Peter Ackroyd