Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Mike Pennington, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
An over-excited jackdaw goes out of his league, and pays the price.
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Hild founded an abbey that poured out a stream of priests and bishops for the revitalised English Church.
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It’s hard when messed-up people treat you badly, but if you take it personally it only makes it worse.
© Klearchos Kapoutsis, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
An affectionate father came up with an imaginative way to get his sons to work on the farm.
© Christine Matthews, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp had a court order preventing Thomas Lewis being shipped off to slavery, but he had to find him first.
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James, brother of John the Evangelist, was executed for his faith by a close friend of the Emperor Caligula.