Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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As war engulfed Europe, an Anglican bishop called on Russia to unite the world’s Christians around their veneration for the Bible.
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By Samuel Dukinfield Swarbreck (1799-1863), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Taking the trouble to express ourselves more clearly helps us to think more clearly too.
By Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856–1933), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Timur, Muslim lord of Samarkand, threw his weight behind the Golden Horde’s subjugation of Christian Russia, with unexpected results.
© Richard Croft, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
On a visit to England in 1599, Swiss doctor Thomas Platter found time to pop across the Thames and take in a show.
© Joseph Mischyshyn, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Three years before the Great War, Rudyard Kipling recalled how one English king simply paid his bullying neighbours to stay at home.
By Henri-Paul Motte (1846–1922), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
As Rome’s grip on Gaul tightened, one man still dared to defy them.