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Royalist soldier Sir Jacob Ashly exemplified a Christian gentleman in the heat of battle.
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Lord Macaulay believed that the disastrous reign of King John brought the country together.
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Sir Walter Scott tells of the tale of how a little spider inspired Robert the Bruce to win his country’s sovereignty.
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After the kingdoms of Great Britain were absorbed into the Roman Empire, the promises of prosperity and civilisation came only to a favoured few.
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Rome’s greedy tax policy in Britain and Gaul left farmers with little to show for their labours but the stripes on their backs.
By Jean-Charles Langlois (fl. 1860s) and Léon-Eugène Méhédin (1828-1905), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
During the Battle of Inkerman in 1854, one of Lord Raglan’s hospital sergeants had a close encounter with a Russian cannonball.