Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1483

‘Better Habits, Not Greater Rights’

The extraordinary productivity and social mobility of the Victorian era is to the credit not of the governing class, but of the working man.

1484

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.

1485

The Birds

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

1486

Black Agnes Dunbar

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

1487

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.

1488

Cain and Abel

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