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A Reckless Indifference to Life

By George McKinnon Wrong

In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.

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Picture: By an anonymous artist, via the Wellcome Collection and Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.. Source.

Posted January 11

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The First Steam Whistle

By Clement Edwin Stretton

After an accident at a level crossing, the bosses of the Leicester and Swannington Railway acknowledged that drivers needed more than lung power.

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Posted December 18 2022

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Seeds of Empire

By Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

The British Empire may be said to have started when Elizabethan importers got into a fight with the Dutch over the price of pepper.

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Posted November 22 2022

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Sing Us a Song of Zion

By Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

The Sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra welcomed his guests from Christian England with an unexpected gesture of friendship.

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Picture: By Johannes Vingboons (1616–1670), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.

Posted November 21 2022

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Private Risk, Public Benefit

By Michael Longridge

For George Stephenson, the motto of the Stockton and Darlington Railway was a code to live by.

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Posted November 10 2022

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A Passion for Meddling

By Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden questioned both the wisdom and the motives of politicians who intervene on foreign soil.

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Posted November 8 2022

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Film Video William Shakespeare: The Quality of Mercy (from ‘The Merchant of Venice’)

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The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat In most contests the choices are win, lose or draw, but what happened here remains a mystery.

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How I Met Nastenka The story-teller recalls his first meeting with Nastenka, and the man who brought them together.

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Scansion Turn these lines into well-punctuated lines of verse.

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Columbus Arthur Clough marvels at the vision of a man who could cross the Atlantic without knowing there was a farther shore.

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Loan Words Match each word to the language we have borrowed it from.

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Who’ll Turn the Grindstone? Whenever Charles Miner suspected an ulterior motive, he would say quietly ‘That man has an axe to grind!’

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A Full Day’s Play It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?

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Grammar Examine these sentences, and say whether the word ‘up’ should be removed.

Posted January 29

Sunday in London Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.

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Music Video Ronald Binge: Concerto for Alto Saxophone: II: Andante espressivo

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Ye Children, Hearken Unto Me David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.

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Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.

Posted January 27 • The Copy Book

Metaphors Rewrite these sentences, substituting each metaphor with another of similar meaning.

Posted January 27

Vocabulary Compose sentences to illustrate the meaning of these words.

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Music Video Henry Purcell: Miserere Mei

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Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.

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Verbs and Nouns Separate these words into two groups, nouns, and nouns that are also verbs. Which one’s the odd-one-out?

Posted January 26 • Think and Speak

The Peacock Throne The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.

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