Aggression Quote by Linda Colley

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley

Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its success was…

— Linda Colley

In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a…

— Linda Colley

These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing…

— Linda Colley

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's…

— Linda Colley

In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world.…

— Linda Colley

Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man…

— Linda Colley

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much…

— Linda Colley

Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh,…

— Linda Colley

Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at…

— Linda Colley

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance…

— Linda Colley

Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early…

— Linda Colley