Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1483

A Bird in the Hand is Worth...

The Roman Emperor Honorius, so the story goes, had more on his mind than the impending sack of one of Europe’s iconic cities.

1484

The Birds

Two men fed up with Athenian politics decide to build a city in the sky.

1485

Black Agnes Dunbar

When Edward III sent the Earl of Salisbury to take her absent husband’s castle, Agnes brushed his attack aside - literally.

1486

The Boston Tea Party

In the time of King George III, Parliament forgot that its job was not to regulate the people, but to represent them.

1487

Cain and Abel

Smarting for his outraged ‘rights’, Cain lost his reason — but not God’s pity and love.

1488

The Character of George Stephenson

A self-made man who never forgot his humble beginnings.