Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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A celebration of St Michael, captain of heaven’s angel host, courteous warrior, and healer.
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A faithful but unprepossessing pet is turned out of hearth and home.
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As Japan’s ruling shoguns resist the tide of progress, a Nagasaki-based Scottish entrepreneur steps in.
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Composer Ethel Smyth buys a new-fangled ladies’ bicycle, and scandalises the neighbours.
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Alice meets Humpty Dumpty, and it turns out that she has been using words wrong all her life.
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The unsung surveyor from Cheshire, who built railways and made friends across the world.