Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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A Japanese swordsman confronts a Russian monk for... actually, he’s not really quite sure.
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A young Indian student from Cambridge was selected for England’s cricket team after public pressure.
© Mick Garratt, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
One of England’s most precious artefacts, the Lindisfarne Gospels, was nearly lost at sea.
© John Comloquoy, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
American anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass contrasts two kinds of ‘nationalist’.
© Celuici, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Anne Elliot is mortified to hear Frederick Wentworth’s opinion of her, but manages to find comfort in his words.
© John Sutton, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Max fully deserves his reputation as England’s greatest all-round sportsman.