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© Olga Burda, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cynewulf encourages his listeners to remain committed to the Christian life, by reminding them of the reward that awaits them.
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Emily Beatrice Bland (1864-1951), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The lives of men are like voyages across stormy seas, but we no longer have to sail them as if they were uncharted waters.
In April 1653, Oliver Cromwell learnt that Parliament was planning to prevent him from packing the Commons with yes-men.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Licence: Public domain.
Shortly before Easter, an ivory box went missing from the gifts presented at the shrine of St Cuthbert.
From ‘Les Vigiles de Charles VII’ (?1484), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
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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Edmund Burke begged the clergy of England to give us all a break from the twenty-four-hour news cycle.