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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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925

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.

926

All that Glisters is not Gold

Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.

927

The Mischief-Maker

A stranger warns the people of Shorapur that they will come to regret their hospitality.

928

Sunderland Albion

A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.

929

A Test of Loyalty

A Roman general asks his officers to decide where their priorities lie.

930

The Girl in the Barn

Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.