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1405
The Abuse of Literacy William Hazlitt

Reading and writing should have taught the people more than name-calling and how to manipulate opinion.

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1406
The Adjudicator Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor recalls his experiences as a judge in the distrustful world of music festivals and brass band contests.

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1407
The Adoration of the Magi Clay Lane

Persian star-gazers hasten to Israel for the birth of a royal heir, but find that King Herod has had his fill of them.

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1408
The Adventures of Lord Forbes of Pitsligo Clay Lane

At sixty-seven, Alexander Forbes rode to war with Bonnie Prince Charlie, and over a decade afterwards was still a hunted man.

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1409
The Alleluia Victory Clay Lane

How hard-pressed Christians on the Welsh border won a battle without bloodshed.

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1410
The American Revolutionary War Clay Lane

In 1775, London’s high-handed exploitation of her colonies for tax revenue began to look like a very expensive mistake.

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