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The Seven Years’ War

By Clay Lane

Georgian Britain braced for war as relations with France in North America, India and mainland Europe took a turn for the worse.

212

A Woman’s Logic

By Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst recalls how she brought some much-needed reason into the operations at Chorlton workhouse.

213

False Unity

By John Buchan

The German Empire promised wonders to restless, grudging Europe, and not to let common sense wake us from our dreams.

214

The Avengers

By John Buchan

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.

215

The Garden and the Machine

By John Buchan

John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.

216

Trunk and Disorderly

By Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley watches on as one of his soldiers is rescued from a watery grave.

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