Subjects

History

in The Copy Book

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The Lessons of Nature

Samuel Smiles shows us two great achievements inspired by two tiny creatures.

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Observation

Great inventions come from those who notice what they see.

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Terror in the Deep

Irish monk St Columba is credited with being among the first witnesses to the ‘Loch Ness monster’.

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‘Get Up!’

Joseph Skipsey’s short poem evokes the last goodbye a Northumberland miner made each morning.

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The Pitman Poet

Joseph Skipsey taught himself to read and write by candlelight, hundreds of feet below ground in a Northumberland pit.

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The Hetton Railway

The railway earned a special place in history as the first to be designed for steam locomotives only.