Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Christine Westerback, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Jane Loudon describes an moment of unexpected paternal affection from a Tom cat.
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Emmeline Pankhurst recalls how she brought some much-needed reason into the operations at Chorlton workhouse.
By Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
The German Empire promised wonders to restless, grudging Europe, and not to let common sense wake us from our dreams.
By Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Pubic domain.
William Pitt complained that European politics offers only a choice of inhospitable extremes.
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John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.
By Ernest Brooks (1878–1957), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.