Sublime

These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.

most common, and successful, approach to resolving these tensions is through the use of departments and divisions: in effect establishing “Chinese walls” between operating groups, allowing each to evolve its own management approaches, appropriate to the marketplace it serves. As potentially divisive as this may sound, it is frequently a more sensib

The ability to place ex-staff in prestigious positions is thus one of the prerequisites of a successful churning strategy.

though there was no compelling need to do so.

Between the Fenland edge at Cambridge and the scarp that forms the north-west edge of Essex a series of dykes survives that seems designed to control, or prevent, access between East Anglia and the Chiltern heartlands, some time between the late fourth and sixth centuries.37 This narrow strip, perhaps formerly the northern border of the Trinovantes

the fate of Nonsuch: what was allegedly one of the greatest palaces in all of Europe was given by a disinterested king to a negligent mistress (Charles II to Barbara Villiers), who set about dismantling it to pay off her gambling debts.

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no more need to have them enforce our contracts.

See Higham 1995, 74ff for the argument that King Edwin of Northumbria had the list drawn up in about 627 by Bishop Paulinus in the aftermath of his war against Wessex. The perceived crime was an assassination attempt on Edwin by a Wessex ambassador in 626, vividly described by Bede in HE II.9.