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1981
Truth Lies Open to All by Ben Jonson

Nobody has a monopoly on the truth, neither the scholars of the past nor the scholars of today.

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1982
Turning the Tide by Henry of Huntingdon

King Canute enacted a memorable demonstration of the limits of government power.

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1983
Twelve Good Men and Tory by Francis Wharton

In 1844, Daniel O’Connell was hauled before a Dublin court to answer charges of seditious conspiracy, and he didn’t stand a chance.

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1984
Twelve Poor Men and True by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens explains the thinking behind Jesus Christ’s choice of friends.

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1985
Twink by Anonymous

When a new mother found herself and her kittens on the wrong side of a nasty-looking stream, Twink was there to help.

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1986
Two Day Rovers by Jane Loudon

Jane Loudon introduces us to two dogs getting on with their busy lives.

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How Britain Brought Football to Chile : British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.
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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