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By William Anderson (1757-1837), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
After word came that Harry Demane had been lured aboard a slave-ship, Granville Sharp had only a few hours in which to make sure he did not sail.
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© Peter K. Burian, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The great French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte protested that in calling England ‘a nation of shopkeepers’ he had paid us a compliment.
From the Illustrated London News (December 4, 1847), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
After a visit to England in 1847, Aleksey Khomyakov published his impressions of our country and our people in a Moscow magazine.
© Magrippa, Wikimedia Commons.Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alexander, who had just taken the bath intended for his vanquished enemy Darius of Persia and was now eating Darius’s supper, was interrupted by a commotion in the camp.
© mattbuck, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
As he sat in his guest room at Durham Abbey, Ranulf de Capella could think of nothing but finding someone to rid him of his painful toothache.
By Isaac Fuller (1606–1672), via the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: ? Public domain.
In 1680, Samuel Pepys sat down with Charles II to record how, many years before, a bold double-bluff saved the King from Cromwell’s men.