Advice is a dangerous gift, and for centuries our greatest writers have wondered how to dispense it safely.
byJoseph Addison1672-1719
William Shakespeare
‘This England’
John of Gaunt watches in despair as his country is milked for its wealth and shared out among the king’s favourites.
byWilliam Shakespeare1564-1616
Kings and Queens of England
William I to John
A quick overview of the Kings of England from William I in 1066 to John in 1199.
Sport and Sportsmen
The Charm of Golf
A. A. Milne analyses the popularity of golf, and decides that it’s good to be bad.
byA. A. Milne1882-1956
Extracts from Literature
‘I Shall Keep This for Aunt Jane’
James Edward Austen-Leigh tells us what it was that made his aunt, the celebrated
novelist Jane Austen, so remarkable.
byJames Edward Austen-Leigh1798-1874
Extracts from Literature
‘Poor Pamela’s Married At Last!’
Letitia Barbauld called Samuel Richardson’s 1740 novel Pamela
‘a new experiment’ in English literature, and to judge by its reception
it was very successful.