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Mothering Sunday is a peculiarly British celebration of Christian faith, close family and responsible freedom.
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Cynewulf reflects on the mystery of the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Mary.
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Samuel Smiles explains why the London and Birmingham Railway was an achievement superior to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Victorian MP Richard Cobden believed British politicians supporting the slave-owning American South had been led a merry dance.
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Passengers sharing Bishop Nicholas’s Moscow-bound flight found his blessings faintly silly — but that was when the engines were still running.
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Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.