The Copybook

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

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Via the Imperial War Museums collection, and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Wolves at the Gate Gerard Shelley

Gregory Rasputin is tricked into attending a dissolute Moscow soirée, and shares his sadness with Englishman Gerard Shelley.

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Via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

A Highly Polished People Sir Stamford Raffles

Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java, urged London to bypass our European partners and trade directly with Japan.

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© Bollywood Hungama, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Brighteners of Cricket A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne warns that marketing cricket to people who don’t like the game must not spoil it for those who do.

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By Loliloli, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

A Common Duty Edith Helen Sichel

From the grateful solitude of his library in the Dordogne, Michel de Montaigne reflects on the companionship of his cat.

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Australian War Memorial Collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

A Great Human Effort John Masefield

The Gallipoli landings in 1915 did not achieve the Admiralty’s goals, but for John Masefield they remained one of the proudest moments of the Great War.

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By Charles Dixon (1872-1934), Archives New Zealand, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 generic.

The Gallipoli Landings Clay Lane

By 1915, the Allies were struggling to break through Germany’s Western Front, and so began looking for another line of attack.

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