Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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Thoughtful Tom

Jane Loudon describes an moment of unexpected paternal affection from a Tom cat.

902

A Woman’s Logic

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

903

False Unity

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

904

The Temperate Zone

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

905

The Avengers

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

906

The Garden and the Machine

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