The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

1405

© John Mavin, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

‘Nothing clears up one’s ideas like explaining them’ H. G. Wells

Muddle-headed inventor Professor Cavor needs to think aloud, and for reasons of his own Mr Bedford is anxious to listen.

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1406

Photo by CrniBombarder!!!, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Welcome to Micklegarth Orderic Vitalis

After the Norman Conquest, thousands of disappointed Englishmen departed for a new life in the Byzantine world.

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1407

© Olaf Tausch, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

High Beneath Heaven’s Roof Cynewulf

The Cross of Christ speaks, and tells of the amazing transformation from sign of shame to sign of redemption.

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1408

© Chris Downer, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

The Case of Jonathan Strong Clay Lane

Granville Sharp and his surgeon brother William rescued a young African man from the streets of London.

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1409

© Sailko, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kipling and ‘Agamemnon’ Clay Lane

Both Rudyard Kipling and the Royal Navy saw Greek sovereignty as a universal symbol of freedom.

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1410

By John Collier (1881), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

‘If...’ Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling’s much-loved verses are a reflection on what it is that builds real character.

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