Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Penny Mayes, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
An everyday act of charity triggered off a series of extraordinary events.
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© Antony Dixon, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
John Lambton goes fishing on a Sunday, and lets loose all kinds of trouble.
© böhringer friedrich, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.5.
A classic tale from Switzerland of overbearing authority and a father with a very steady hand.
© Jeffrey Sciberras, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Once a year, regular as clockwork, the little snakes slither into the convent for a Feast of the Virgin Mary.
© Andrew Gray, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.
A self-made man who never forgot his humble beginnings.
Photo by Orrin Dunlap Jr, in ‘Popular Radio’ (1926). Via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Baird’s inventions didn’t always work as well as his televisions.