Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
By Charles Dixon (1872-1934), Archives New Zealand, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 generic.
By 1915, the Allies were struggling to break through Germany’s Western Front, and so began looking for another line of attack.
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George served in the Roman army and lies buried in Israel, yet he makes an ideal patron for England.
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Maximian and his friends refused to take part in a multi-faith day of prayer for unity.
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The Israelites turn to Deborah for help after twenty years under the harsh rule of King Jabin and his stern general Sisera.
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In 655, the future of England as a Christian nation hung by the slenderest of threads.
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Sir Charles Lucas argued that the Industrial Revolution happened at just the right time for everyone in the British Empire.