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During the Indian Mutiny, over a thousand men, women and children were trapped in the Commissioner’s residence at Lucknow.
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King Louis XIV of France raised rebellion in Ireland to put his own man on the English throne.
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Richard Hannay sees for himself how political activists trick decent people into supporting their quest for power.
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The Parliament of Scotland tried to liberate itself from London’s strangling single market.
© Ian Capper, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf wonders at the mystery of the Bethlehem manger, where all the light of heaven was shining.
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A crackdown on dissent in England’s established Church drove a band of Nottinghamshire townspeople to seek new shores.