Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1453

The Birds

Two men fed up with Athenian politics decide to build a city in the sky.

1454

Black Agnes Dunbar

When Edward III sent the Earl of Salisbury to take her absent husband’s castle, Agnes brushed his attack aside - literally.

1455

The Boston Tea Party

In the time of King George III, Parliament forgot that its job was not to regulate the people, but to represent them.

1456

Cain and Abel

Smarting for his outraged ‘rights’, Cain lost his reason — but not God’s pity and love.

1457

The Character of George Stephenson

A self-made man who never forgot his humble beginnings.

1458

Cyril and Hypatia

A ‘Christian’ mob kidnapped and murdered a much-loved professor of mathematics - for her politics.