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At the Baron’s Board Anonymous

However grim and severe the thirteenth century baron might be in his public duties, at dinner-time it was all wine, laughter and song.

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Athelstan and the Prince of Norway Clay Lane

Soon after Athelstan became England’s first king, he played a trick on the King of Norway which demanded a reply.

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Autumn: A Dirge Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet Percy Shelley calls on November’s sister months to watch by the graveside of the dead Year.

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Away to Your Own Country Joan of Arc

As the Duke of Bedford and other English captains were besieging Orleans, they received a startling letter from a seventeen-year-old girl.

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Away with Compulsion! John Wesley

John Wesley called for a world in which no one was forced to go against his conscience or to serve against his will.

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Bad Day at Waterloo Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

Frederick Ponsonby’s involvement in the Battle of Waterloo began early, and it seemed to him that it went on for ever.

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