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Judges’ Wigs by William Cobbett

On a countryside ramble in West Sussex, William Cobbett finds the weather turning against him.

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Judicial Iniquity by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill reminds us that governments and the courts must never be allowed to criminalise matters of belief or opinion.

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Jupiter and the Bee by Thomas James

A bee asks a blessing of the king of the gods, but what she gets from him is not quite what she had in mind.

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Justice and Equity by Harsukh Rai

After the East India Company quieted the Maratha Confederacy in 1805, Harsukh Rai looked forward to a new era of good government.

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Kanguru! by Captain James Cook

James Cook describes his first sight of a beloved Australian icon.

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Kate gets a Dressing-Down by Charles Dickens

Kate Nickleby must bite her lip as she experiences snobbery for the first time.

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How Britain Brought Football to Chile : British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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