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1771
The Pimpernel Fails to Show Baroness Orczy

Lady Blakeney agrees to spy for the French Revolutionary government in return for her brother’s life.

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1772
The Pitman Poet Clay Lane

Joseph Skipsey taught himself to read and write by candlelight, hundreds of feet below ground in a Northumberland pit.

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1773
The Plea of Pocahontas John Smith

In 1607, settler Captain John Smith was captured by the Algonquin near the English colony at Jamestown, and watched his captors’ ceremonies with rising anxiety.

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1774
The Politics of Language John Lynch

John Lynch, exiled to France by Cromwell’s men, lamented the way that Irish was being labelled as a language of sedition.

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1775
The Power of Balance George Canning MP

George Canning warned the Commons to be very careful about their plans for reform.

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1776
The Prayer of St Ephraim St Ephraim the Syrian

A prayer recited frequently during Great Lent in the Greek and Russian churches.

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