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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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The Wolf, the Bear and Cat Ivanovitch

A faithful but unprepossessing pet is turned out of hearth and home.

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Japan’s First Railway

As Japan’s ruling shoguns resist the tide of progress, a Nagasaki-based Scottish entrepreneur steps in.

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The Free-Wheeler

Composer Ethel Smyth buys a new-fangled ladies’ bicycle, and scandalises the neighbours.

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Alice gets an English Lesson

Alice meets Humpty Dumpty, and it turns out that she has been using words wrong all her life.

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Thomas Brassey

The unsung surveyor from Cheshire, who built railways and made friends across the world.

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The Din of Diplomacy

William Gladstone warns voters not to leave foreign policy in the hands of interventionist politicians.