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...He attended Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where his history tutor was Hugh Trevor-Roper, and gained a first....
..., as imagined by Robert Bolt in the film A Man for All Seasons....
...The last music I downloaded was Robert Ellis’s “Yesterday’s News”....
...Roper continued: “It’s a little bit difficult to answer that question because of course we’re still going through the material....
...In Witch Craze (2004), her magisterial study of hundreds of German witch trials, historian Lyndal Roper insists: “We cannot understand why witches were hunted unless we take the fears of those who hunted...
...Catherine Roper, head of the Met’s specialist crime command, said: “We have not delayed this report and the timing of its release is a matter for the Cabinet Office inquiry team.”...
...Catherine Roper, the senior officer in charge of the inquiry, said people would be contacted about the allegations “in a matter of weeks”....
...Robert Armstrong, US financial editor, puts this week’s extraordinary activity on Wall Street in the context of historical “pump and dump” share selling schemes and ponders the likely regulatory backlash...
...It went on: “He . . . recently met Hugh Trevor-Roper (an old contact of his) who, he says, is very worried about the situation in Oxford.”...
...I also love the Roper House – you can visit by appointment – lovingly restored by Dick Jenrette. And I could buy prints and frame them at the Audubon Gallery....
...David Roper, one of the founders of the UK’s Melrose Industries, announced on Thursday that he would retire at the end of May next year. His nickname is The Grinder. More here....
...In an influential essay from 1994, the American foreign-affairs writer Robert D Kaplan described a trip across a continent raddled with disease, corruption and violence....
...Will Roper, head of the US’s Strategic Capabilities Office, told CBS: “It opens up a completely different level of warfare.” Already, drones can shoot plastic bullets, tear gas and tasers....
...For someone who prefers a low profile, Robert Smith has a knack for attracting attention....
...Angela Rippon, the former newsreader, becomes CBE for her dementia care campaign work, while Justine Roberts, the founder of parenting website Mumsnet, becomes CBE for “services to the economy”....
...Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita, by Robert Roper, Bloomsbury, RRP£20/$28, 368 pages...
...Or, for the very long view, Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth set out a thesis of technological diminishing returns that does much to explain an age of economic pessimism....
...If Robert Maxwell was their rogue elephant, Weidenfeld was more akin to a sleek Renaissance cardinal, holding court to writers, politicians and grandees, while exercising influence via a quiet word in the...
...That’s because everyone from Robert Peston and Peter Hitchens to Vitol’s Ian Taylor seem to have a view on the oil price decline, some making claims that “the market may have hit bottom”, others hinting...
...“This may, in part, be explained by a stronger focus on export markets in the south,” Prof Roper said....
...The final sales total was more than £6.5m ($10.4m), according to Bonhams, but the star car of the auction, an ex-Sir Robert Roper Semi-Lightweight E-type Jaguar, was sold after the auction for an undisclosed...
...You know – one of them would say – I’ll be [Robert] McNamara and you be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.”...
...War was caused by a fall (the Trevor-Roper theory) or rise (the Stone hypothesis) in the power of the gentry....
...In Britain it is spearheaded by Lords Roper and Dubs, and by MPs Andrew Dismore, Chris Ruane and Tim Boswell; and in Portugal by Jaime Gama, the president of the parliament, and Jose Ribeiro e Castro, the...
...IMPERIUM by Robert Harris Hutchinson ₤17.99, 416 pages One of the year’s blockbusters takes readers to the first century BC and the life of Rome’s greatest orator, Cicero, as told by his secretary - which...
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