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© Alan Pennington, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

The Real Merchant by William Cobbett

William Cobbett makes a distinction between everyday business and the murky world of Westminster lobbyists and financial speculation.

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Free Trade, Free Peoples by William Cobbett

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

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From the Imperial War Museums collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

The Girl in the Barn by Clay Lane

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

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© Helmut Zozmann. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Asylum Christi by Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles explains how Tudor England was transformed from sleepy backwater to hive of industry.

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From the Chemical Heritage Foundation, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Not for Sale by Sir Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy pleads with Britain’s scientists not to be bought by Napoleon’s gold.

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Great Mother of Men by Adam Smith

The spread of Western civilisation must not be credited to European policy, but to a culture of curiosity, enterprise and defiance.

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The Spy : In 1910, Constantine Zervakos, a young monk from the Greek island of Paros, found himself charged with espionage.
The Miracle of St John of the Caves : The story of an unexpected escape through the heart of a hill.
The Peninsular War : Napoleon’s six-year-long campaign (1808-1814) to bring Spain and Portugal into his united Europe was frustrated by Arthur Wellesley.
Thick and Thin : Express each of these ideas as a single word.
Break : Explain what each of these common expressions means, and give examples.
Blind Guide : William Wirt recalls an overpowering sermon from a blind man in a little wooden chapel.
It’s All in the Delivery : Aeschines paid tribute to the oratory of his greatest rival — whether he meant to or not.
The Road to Ruin : George Berkeley warned that industry, not financial speculation, was the guarantee of a nation’s wealth.
Signs of Command : Suggest publicly-displayed commands, and say how many of them are sentences.
My Native Notes : Scotsman James Boswell always spoke good English when in England, but he was careful to leave a little Scots in.
Hidden Message : Reveal the hidden message in a letter, and write a coded letter of your own.
The Great and the Good : Daniel Defoe wondered whether goodness was not preferable to greatness.
Statements, Questions and Commands : Choose a word from our list, and then use it in any one of the three basic types of sentence — if possible.
Sentegrams : These sentences, taken from English literature, have been jumbled up like an anagram; see if you can piece them back together.
Good Sense : Rewrite these sentences so that the word ‘unless’ is not used.
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