Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
By E.O.S. and Company of employees of the Times of India, Bombay. Via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
When Lord Salisbury asked the Russian Minister of the Interior how many agents the Tsar had in India, the reply came as a shock.
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By Egbert van der Poel, (16621-1664). Via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
William Stead warned his fellow-journalists to take care that their bellicose rhetoric did not end in a real war with Russia.
By Gorgo, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain image.
Gaius Caesar is disappointed with the quality of the entertainment on offer in Rome’s Circus Maximus.
By A. D. Lewis, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
William Stead conceived modern print journalism in the belief that newspapers could change the world.
© Wellcome Images, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A man unjustly condemned to transportation finds that thieves thieve, but sometimes decency shines through too.
From the Athens War Museum collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Under a moonlit sky in October 1942, Allied and Axis forces met in battle on the sands of the Egyptian desert.