The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

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© The Presidential Press and Information Office, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0.

A Light to Lighten the English Robert Southey

Even before he was born, St Dunstan was marked out to lead the English Church and nation to more peaceful times.

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By the circle of Andrey Rublev (1408), via the Russian State Museum in St Petersburg and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Candlemas Clay Lane

A February celebration for which the faithful have brought candles to church since Anglo-Saxon times.

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© Derek Harper, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Setting of Edith’s Star Goscelin of Canterbury

Edith left behind her a distraught Archbishop Dunstan, but also a legacy of love for the suffering.

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By Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

St Edith’s Rebuke Goscelin of Canterbury

King Canute could not believe that his hard-living predecessor Edgar could father a saint.

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© Derek Harper, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Edith’s Thumb Goscelin of Canterbury

The way Edith kept tracing little crosses with her thumb made a great impression on Archbishop Dunstan.

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© Peter I. Vardy, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

The Character of St Edith of Wilton Goscelin of Canterbury

Edith of Wilton may have been the daughter of King, but she did not behave like one in the Abbey or the town.

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