The Copybook: Readings in history and literature

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The Man Who Left No Footprints by Clay Lane

A young monk was rewarded for taking his duties as guest-master seriously.

20

Northumberland by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

A poem of nostalgia for the sea breezes and yellow gorse of Northumberland.

21

Cvthbertvs by Clay Lane

Henry VIII’s experts declared that saints were nothing special, but St Cuthbert had a surprise for them.

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Cuthbert and the Dun Cow by Clay Lane

The magnificent cathedral at Durham owes its existence to a missing cow.

23

Burning Daylight by Samuel Smiles

George Stephenson argued that his steam engines were solar-powered.

24

The Kings of Northumbria by Clay Lane

Out of a restless alliance between two 6th century kingdoms came a civilisation that defined Englishness.