II. W G Hoskins: A Bibliographical Memoir in Loving Memory of Fred Combley.

In this article the author presents his views on various persons known to him. Jack Simmons and W.G. Hoskins were the greatest of friends after Simmons came to Leicester in 1947. The evening before observing the fields of Oadby the had led a seminar in a textile mill now the Arts Building at De Montfort University: the city's second university lies at its industrially inert centre and what Simmons and Hoskins would have made of its cannibal instincts he does not dare to think. The seminar was on the massacre of Jews by Poles at the village of Jedwabne in July 1941. Ten people were present the better part of them being personal friends of Panikos. Some others were there because they were going to eat at an Indian restaurant in the London Road afterwards their Christmas treat. The author particularly likes Patrick Collinson's definition of capitalism as pointillist and his insistence on the opening up of cultural divisiveness at the Reformation. Cultural philistinism also arrived on an English scene it would thereafter dominate. The English upper classes might not have been congenitally idiotic but they were inclined to regard any pleasure other than hunting shooting and fishing as either un-English or unruly.