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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1219

Northumberland

A poem of nostalgia for the sea breezes and yellow gorse of Northumberland.

1220

‘Sussex’

A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.

1221

Triumph in Adversity

Two famous figures, one from the sciences and one from the arts, who turned suffering to advantage.

1222

Straightforward English

If freedom and democracy are to have any meaning, the public must be able to talk back to their governors.

1223

The Unselfishess of Free Trade

Victorian MP Richard Cobden pleaded for Britain to set the world an example as a nation open for business.

1224

Violet van der Elst

An eccentric, self-made businesswoman, who ‘made three fortunes and spent five’ in the campaign against the death penalty.