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By Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Sir John Eliot told the Commons that what worried him wasn’t the sabre-rattling of foreign leaders, it was incompetence and corruption at home.
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By Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950), via the Victoria and Albert Museum and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
With King John dead and the threat of invasion fading, Philip Faulconbridge reflects that the danger within is always greater than the danger without.
© Ad Meskens, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mr Gradgrind and a Government expert on education make sure that the children of Coketown have the right opinions about everything.
© David Dixon, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
A sophisticated City Mouse went to see his Country cousin, and pitied his simple fare.
© Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
In Jim Baker’s considered opinion, the bluejay had a much better command of language than Mark Twain’s cats did.
From Royal MS 14 B VI, via the British Library and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In 917, King Edward embarked on a swashbuckling tour of the midlands, and brought their towns under one crown for the first time in five hundred years.