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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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919

Long Ben

An English sailor became the target of the first worldwide manhunt following an audacious act of piracy.

920

Chopsticks

Ethel Smyth puts on a show for a self-declared music enthusiast.

921

Experience Does It

Wilkins Micawber had little to give David Copperfield at their parting, save two words of advice.

922

A Bit of Luck for his Lordship

George Stephenson was only too pleased to save the Government from its scientific advisers.

923

The Vision of St Fursey

Fursey was a 7th-century Irish monk whose visions of the afterlife made a great impression on St Bede.

924

Free Trade, Free Peoples

Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.