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© David Wright, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
There comes a point in some relationships when words just aren’t enough.
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© Martin, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Anti-Christian governments don’t make us free, they just impose their own, illiberal morality.
© Dean Wissing, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
How do we get the help of millions of people we don’t know? Only by trade.
© Vivienne Smith, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Ralph Neville spoiled David of Scotland’s alliance with France in the Hundred Years’ War
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The proof of Thomas Ferres’s rags-to-riches tale is quite literally written in stone, but popular lore adds some tantalising and romantic detail.
© Philip Capper, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
When Edward III sent the Earl of Salisbury to take her absent husband’s castle, Agnes brushed his attack aside - literally.