The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

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By Eduard von Grützner (1846–1925), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Little Rays of Sunshine A. G. Gardiner

‘Alpha of the Plough’ wished that he had been born with the gift of a winning smile.

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By George Bellows (1882-1925), via the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Mrs Lock’s Radical Ride William Cobbett

William Cobbett was delighted with one young woman’s protest against Mr Pitt’s ingenious ways of raising money.

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By the Metropolitan Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Free Trade is Fair Trade Thorold Rogers

Thorold Rogers looks at how Governments have tried to make trade ‘fair’, and concludes that they would have been better ensuring it was free.

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By Francis Holman (1729–1784), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Private Prudence, Public Folly Adam Smith

Adam Smith contrasted the Government’s handling of the national economy with the way most families handled theirs.

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© Eric Jones, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Wise Man of Pencader Gerald of Wales

During his Welsh campaign, Henry II asked one of his allies what he thought the future of Wales would look like.

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Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

The Battle of Coleshill Jamieson Boyd Hurry

It rankled with Henry II that Wales did not pay to him the honour she had paid to his great-grandfather, William the Conqueror.

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