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Classical History

A Test of Loyalty

A Roman general asks his officers to decide where their priorities lie.

The Second World War

The Girl in the Barn

Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.

Lives of the Saints

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Abbot Elfric unpacks the meaning of the gifts of the Three Wise Men.

Discovery and Invention

Spinning Jenny

James Hargreaves’s historic invention was not without its critics when it first appeared.

Tudor Era

The Ridolfi Plot

The Pope and the King of Spain decide that the time has come to rid England of her troublesome Queen, Elizabeth I.

Tudor Era

Asylum Christi

Samuel Smiles explains how Tudor England was transformed from sleepy backwater to hive of industry.