New Histories of Anglo-German Diplomacy under Elizabeth I and James VI and I
March 14, 2016
In his 1569 account of ‘The State of Germany’, the English diplomat Robert Beale recorded that, at mealtimes, the Count Palatine of the Rhine kept twenty-four tables of eight people each in two different rooms. ‘In the one place … sitteth himself, his wife, and Children standing att one Table, alone … And his gentlewomen …
Public Opinion/Public Policy
September 6, 2013
According to Abraham Lincoln, “public opinion is everything.” A massive industry now exists to measure public opinion – organisations like YouGov, Gallup, and Ipsos MORI, as well as companies devoted to organising focus groups to test everything from instant soup to the policies of major political parties. And that is without mentioning informal (and misleading) …
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