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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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The Great Bengal Famine

The Governor of Bengal accused the East India Company of turning a crisis into a humanitarian catastrophe.

914

The Englishman

George Santayana had the chance to observe our national character at the height of Empire.

915

The Christmas Egg

Anglo-Saxon abbot Elfric tentatively likened the new-born Jesus to an egg.

916

William Hall VC

Canadian sailor William Hall was summoned over to India to help face down the Indian Mutiny.

917

The Siege of Lucknow

During the Indian Mutiny, over a thousand men, women and children were trapped in the Commissioner’s residence at Lucknow.

918

The Nine Years’ War

King Louis XIV of France raised rebellion in Ireland to put his own man on the English throne.