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A Light to Lighten the English Robert Southey

Even before he was born, St Dunstan was marked out to lead the English Church and nation to more peaceful times.

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A Literary Mystery Margaret Sprague Carhart

In 1798, ‘Plays on the Passions’ appeared in London bookstores, but no one seemed to know who had written them.

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A Little Common Sense William Pitt the Elder

William Pitt the Elder doubts the wisdom of letting experts run the country.

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A Little Savoir Faire George W. E. Russell

At the Berlin Congress of Powers in 1878, the draft of the Prime Minister’s keynote speech had his anxious aides scuttling about like ants.

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A Lullaby to Sorrows Clay Lane

A Scottish widow’s lullaby for her fatherless child inspired his music, but Brahms’s message struck closer to home.

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A Man called ‘Beta’ Clay Lane

For a perennial ‘runner-up’, Eratosthenes had a peculiar knack of being first.

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