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How St Euphemia Saved Christmas Clay Lane

The martyr St Euphemia played a vital role in preventing the message of Christmas from being watered down.

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How the British Invented Cool Clay Lane

Michael Faraday showed that gases could be compressed and evaporated to preserve food and make ice.

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How the Cobra Got His Spectacles John George Wood

John Wood shares the wonder of the Indian cobra’s hood, in science and in myth.

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How the Pepyses Kept Twelfth Day Samuel Pepys

In the family of Samuel Pepys, the Feast of the Epiphany was kept with music, cake and quaint traditions.

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How to Impress the English Leopold Mozart

Leopold Mozart was eager to win the hearts of the English, and thought he knew just the way to do it.

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How to Learn a Language William Cobbett

When William Cobbett told his son James to be conscientious about his grammar lessons, he was drawing on hard-won experience.

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