Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Jeff Buck, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
If Britain is a chessboard, then politicians should remember that the ‘pieces’ are alive, and they generally play a better game.
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Kate Nickleby must bite her lip as she experiences snobbery for the first time.
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From performance and composition to instrument-making, Clementi left his mark on British and European classical music.
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William the Conqueror’s purge of the English Church was halted by a humble bishop and a dead king.
© Martyn Gorman, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
A reminder that those with extreme wealth and power have everything but the peace to enjoy it.
© Chneophytou, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eurystheus sends his cousin on another labour, this time hoping the task is too delicate for the big man.