Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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A Woman’s Logic

Emmeline Pankhurst recalls how she brought some much-needed reason into the operations at Chorlton workhouse.

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False Unity

The German Empire promised wonders to restless, grudging Europe, and not to let common sense wake us from our dreams.

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The Temperate Zone

William Pitt complained that European politics offers only a choice of inhospitable extremes.

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The Avengers

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.

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The Garden and the Machine

John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.

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Raw Haste

The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.