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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1279

Terror in the Deep

Irish monk St Columba is credited with being among the first witnesses to the ‘Loch Ness monster’.

1280

‘Get Up!’

Joseph Skipsey’s short poem evokes the last goodbye a Northumberland miner made each morning.

1281

The Pitman Poet

Joseph Skipsey taught himself to read and write by candlelight, hundreds of feet below ground in a Northumberland pit.

1282

Hera and the Boeotian Bride

Zeus employs a little psychology to effect a reunion with his offended wife.

1283

The Hetton Railway

The railway earned a special place in history as the first to be designed for steam locomotives only.

1284

The Stockton and Darlington Railway

The little County Durham line built by George Stephenson and his son Robert was the place where the world’s railway infrastructure really began.