Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
Blog
Copybook
Think & Speak
Games
KJV Bible
© Andy F, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Samuel Smiles explains why the London and Birmingham Railway was an achievement superior to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Read
From the US National Archives and Records Administration, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain. (Note: this is Richard Cobden, not ‘Richard Corden’ as given by NARA.)
Victorian MP Richard Cobden believed British politicians supporting the slave-owning American South had been led a merry dance.
By Staecker, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Passengers sharing Bishop Nicholas’s Moscow-bound flight found his blessings faintly silly — but that was when the engines were still running.
© Greg Willis, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.
© Graham Horn, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Nineteenth-century Britain had busy industrial cities and a prosperous middle class, but no MPs to represent them.
© Robert Graham, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Athelstan confirmed himself as King of the English, and also reawakened a feeling that all Britain should be a united people.
Clay Lane Home
Search
The Copybook
Think and Speak
Comfortable Words
Word Games
Featured Authors
Featured Subjects
Search The Copybook
About Clay Lane
Close Menu