13:0113:01, 24 February 2022diffhist−136
Susan Howatch
Amended the drafting of some of the early paragraphs which read as if they had been lifted from a publisher's gushing blurb.
18:1318:13, 22 December 2021diffhist−45
Blue John (mineral)
I have removed a reference to "ormolu" in respect of Matthew Boulton's use of blue john to make decorative vases. It mistakenly seemed to believe that ormolu is another word for decorative vases. Whether Boulton's vases had ormolu gilding on them is undemonstrated and frankly irrelevant to the use of blue john.
13:4213:42, 20 October 2021diffhist−11
Astolat Dollhouse Castle
Deleted "officially" from the opening sentence. Unless there is an Official World Appraiser of Doll's House Values then it cannot have been "officially" appraised.
16:0516:05, 23 September 2021diffhist+1,657
Gammon (insult)
→Earlier historical uses: Amend to clarify 19th century meaning of the slang term, and to tone down the prominence given to Dickens (the author of the NS Article acknowledges in an addendum to the linked article that Dickens did *not* invent the term and that it had a broader meaning beyond jingoism).Tag: Disambiguation links added
19 August 2021
16:3616:36, 19 August 2021diffhist−30
What's Opera, Doc?
→Plot: No source found for this assertion, and personally I don't hear it - to my ears Bugs says 'helmet' (though his Brooklyn accent makes it sound closer to 'hilmet'). Definitely no 'f' though.
17:1017:10, 22 July 2021diffhist+27
Candida Lycett Green
Amend "Eire" to "Ireland". "Éire" (the correct spelling, "Eire" is a different word) is not the normally used English-language name for Ireland in the 1940s.
14 July 2021
12:4212:42, 14 July 2021diffhist+281
Fredegund
→Queen: Fix misquotation of Gregory of Tours. Gregory's remark, that "he loved her dearly, because she brought with her a great dowry", is in reference to Galswintha, not Fredegunde.
14:0914:09, 8 July 2021diffhist−101
Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom
→Ministerial departments: Adding in Mogg and Evans. I'm not comfortable with excluding them, as it appears to amount to OR - they are listed as part of/alongside their offices in cited official sources describing "Ministerial responsibilities"; if we don't think they have Ministerial responsibilities for these offices we need evidence.