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A Proper Education Jane Austen

Harriet Smith’s school gave her a grounding in good sense that even Emma Woodhouse could not quite overthrow.

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A Proper Game of Cricket

Mary Mitford makes an appeal for the traditional village cricket match.

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A Pyrrhic Victory Plutarch

The ancient Greek King knew victory had cost his army more than it could afford to lose.

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A Quick Study St Bede of Jarrow

After the monastery of St Paul in Jarrow was devasted by an epidemic, the Abbot had only a boy in his early teens to rely on.

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A Ransom of Iron Anonymous (‘A. H.’)

When Brennus the Gaul broke through the gates of Rome, Marcus Furius Camillus was far away in exile.

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A Real Soldier Colonel Sir William F. Butler

Major-General Charles Napier, given the task of policing a Chartist rally in Manchester, was alarmed to hear the protestors had brought the big guns - literally.

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