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1747
The Ordeal of Harry Demane by Granville Sharp

After word came that Harry Demane had been lured aboard a slave-ship, Granville Sharp had only a few hours in which to make sure he did not sail.

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1748
The Outbreak of the Great War by Clay Lane

Germany felt she had a right to an empire like Britain’s, and she was willing to get it at the expense of her neighbours.

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1749
The Outbreak of the Second World War by Clay Lane

The only truly global conflict in history began when German troops crossed into Poland in September 1939.

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1750
‘The Overland Mail’ by Rudyard Kipling

A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.

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1751
The Ox and the Ass from The York Corpus Christi Pageants

The chill of the night is relieved by the warmth of the beasts in their stalls, prompting Mary and Joseph to reflect on the promises of Scripture.

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1752
The Parable of the Good Samaritan from The Authorized Version

A Jewish man is left for dead by bandits, but help comes from a most unexpected quarter.

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Thomas Brassey : The unsung surveyor from Cheshire, who built railways and made friends across the world.
The Convert : Victorian cat-lover Harrison Weir launches into his favourite subject, but finds his audience growing restive.
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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