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By Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), via WIkimedia Commons. Public domain.
It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?
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By Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.
© AJD, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tudor mansion of Compton Wynyates is full of secrets and puzzles, some macabre, some downright peculiar.
By Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.
British School, ca. 1600, via the Royal Collection and Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.
© PaulTurner, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.
John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.