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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1489

The Battle of Salamis

As the Persian Empire’s grip tightened by land and sea, it fell to one man to unite Greece in a last desperate bid to break it.

1490

A Battle of Wills

Following an appalling atrocity in fourth-century Thessalonica, two strong and determined men refused to back down.

1491

The Battle of Ynys Mon

Suetonius Paulinus, Governor of Britain, hoped to enhance his reputation.

1492

Belshazzar’s Feast

Prince Belshazzar’s disrespectful behaviour left him facing the original ‘writing on the wall’.

1493

‘Better Habits, Not Greater Rights’

The extraordinary productivity and social mobility of the Victorian era is to the credit not of the governing class, but of the working man.

1494

A Bird in the Hand is Worth...

The Roman Emperor Honorius, so the story goes, had more on his mind than the impending sack of one of Europe’s iconic cities.