Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1201

The Outbreak of the Great War

Germany felt she had a right to an empire like Britain’s, and she was willing to get it at the expense of her neighbours.

1202

A Pyrrhic Victory

The ancient Greek King knew victory had cost his army more than it could afford to lose.

1203

The Man Who Left No Footprints

A young monk was rewarded for taking his duties as guest-master seriously.

1204

The Rewards of Treachery

Cicero warns those who seek power through civic unrest that they will never be the beneficiaries of it.

1205

How Britain Abolished Slavery

The Church, mother Nature and free markets had almost done for slavery at home when colonies in the New World brought it back.

1206

The Obstinacy of Fowell Buxton

Fatherless teenage tearaway Fowell Buxton was not a promising boy, but the Gurney family changed all that.