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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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895

The Vision of St Fursey

Fursey was a 7th-century Irish monk whose visions of the afterlife made a great impression on St Bede.

896

Free Trade, Free Peoples

Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.

897

All that Glisters is not Gold

Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.

898

The Mischief-Maker

A stranger warns the people of Shorapur that they will come to regret their hospitality.

899

Sunderland Albion

A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.

900

A Test of Loyalty

A Roman general asks his officers to decide where their priorities lie.