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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1075

The Ladies’ Diary

A long-lived annual of riddles, rhymes and really hard maths aimed specifically at Georgian Britain’s hidden public of clever women.

1076

Undoubting Thomas

Abbot Elfric praised St Thomas for demanding hard evidence for the resurrection.

1077

Heracles and the Mares of Diomedes

Eurystheus pits his cousin against a son of Ares and some man-eating horses.

1078

Perilous Waters

King Saul’s jealousies drove those who loved him away, but David was a very different kind of leader.

1079

The Price of Treachery

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.

1080

The First Easter

In a translation from the Authorized Version of the Bible, published in 1611, St Mark recounts the discovery of Christ’s empty tomb.