Innovation Quotes

“In the Victorian era, a flapper had been a child prostitute;”
― Peter Ackroyd, Innovation

“Did you consider when you went headlong into a war like this,’ Kitchener asked the cabinet, ‘that you were without an army? Did you not realize the war was likely to last for years and require tens of thousands of soldiers?’ He was soon permitted to ask for volunteers among the male adult population.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Innovation

“The government’s response to the Irish potato blight of the 1840s, which caused around 1 million Irish people to die of starvation or disease and another million to emigrate, was incompetent and indifferent when it was not cruel.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Innovation

“The press no longer exaggerated the incidence of minor accidents,”
― Peter Ackroyd, Innovation

“The press spread fears about the effects of prolonged cycling. Overenthusiastic cyclists might develop ‘bicycle hump’ by leaning too long over the handlebars; acute cases of ‘bicycle foot’ and even ‘bicycle face’ were reported”
― Peter Ackroyd, Innovation