Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1507

How Benedict Biscop brought Byzantium to Britain

The chapel of Bede’s monastery in Sunderland was full of the colours and sounds of the far-off Mediterranean world.

1508

The Hunt for the Wild Boar of Calydon

Artemis, goddess of the hunt, pursued a bitter and relentless vengeance upon a king who carelessly slighted her.

1509

Ignaz Moscheles

Moscheles taught his adopted country how to write enchanting music for decades to come.

1510

In the Nick of Time

Anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp had a court order preventing Thomas Lewis being shipped off to slavery, but he had to find him first.

1511

John Harrison’s Marine Chronometer

When Harrison won the Longitude Prize, fair and square, Parliament wouldn’t pay up.

1512

John Logie Baird

Baird’s inventions didn’t always work as well as his televisions.