Subjects

Modern History

in The Copy Book

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For Valour

The Victoria Cross is the highest award made to our Armed Forces.

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The Last Days of Charles II

James calls Fr Huddleston to his brother’s deathbed, ready for a most delicate task.

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The Evacuation of Dunkirk

The fate of the British army hung by a thread in May 1940, but ships large and small, military and civilian, came to the rescue.

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The Jacobite Rebellions

Loyal subjects of King James II continued to fight his corner after he, and any real hope of success, had gone.

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Equal before the Law

Queen Victoria assured her subjects that there were no second-class citizens in her eyes.

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Victoria and the Munshi

Abdul Karim’s rapid rise in Victoria’s household made him enemies.