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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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Could Do Better

The Report of the Newcastle Commission confirmed that there were no Dotheboys Halls among Yorkshire’s private schools.

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Equally Free

Sir Joshua Fitch urges Victorian society to let women make their own career choices – whatever they may be.

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Brimstone and Treacle

Mrs Squeers has lost the school spoon, and is uncomfortably frank about its importance.

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The Fact-Lovers

American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the demand for hard evidence as a peculiarly English trait.

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Dead Man Walking

Richard Hannay was finding life in London a little slow until a self-confessed dead man walked into his rooms.

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Wellington’s Cook

The hero of Waterloo needed all his men to believe in him that day, but none believed in him more than his cook.