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1741
The Nine Years’ War Clay Lane

King Louis XIV of France raised rebellion in Ireland to put his own man on the English throne.

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1742
The Normandy Landings Clay Lane

‘D-Day’ on 6th June, 1944, kicked off the Allied invasion of Europe and raised hopes of an end to the Second World War.

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1743
The Oath of Olaf Tryggvason The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Viking raider Olaf Tryggvason, newly converted to Christianity, threw his weight behind a Danish invasion of England.

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The Object of a Liberal Education Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Huxley believed that if schools did not ground their pupils in common sense, life’s examinations would be painful.

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1745
The Obstinacy of Fowell Buxton Clay Lane

Fatherless teenage tearaway Fowell Buxton was not a promising boy, but the Gurney family changed all that.

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The Old House Mrs Molesworth

In the opening lines of The Cuckoo Clock, Mrs Molesworth paints a word-picture of a house so old that Time itself seemed to have stopped.

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