Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Oliver Dixon, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
A poem of nostalgia for the sea breezes and yellow gorse of Northumberland.
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© Janet Richardson, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.
© Richard Crowest Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two famous figures, one from the sciences and one from the arts, who turned suffering to advantage.
© Roger Kidd, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
If freedom and democracy are to have any meaning, the public must be able to talk back to their governors.
© Bahnfrend, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Victorian MP Richard Cobden pleaded for Britain to set the world an example as a nation open for business.
© Kate Jewell, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
An eccentric, self-made businesswoman, who ‘made three fortunes and spent five’ in the campaign against the death penalty.