Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
National Archives of Canada, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
After two years in South Africa, a Scottish civil servant began turning out best-selling adventure tales.
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The first setbacks for the German Empire in the Great War came courtesy of ANZAC troops.
© Jean Housen, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manto Mavrogenous hoped that her fellow women might show more solidarity with Greece than many men had done.
© Zde, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
In 1822, a rich and beautiful young woman took the cause of Greek independence into her capable hands.
© Tanya Dedyukhina, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
A traveller went into a Shropshire pub looking for information about a patch of grass with peculiar properties.
By Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
An Arthurian knight commits a dreadful crime against a woman, and is sent by Queen Guinevere on a fitting errand.