Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
By Bill Ingalls, NASA, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The final part of this series is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, the country’s longest-serving monarch and arguably the most popular in our history.
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© Peter, Wikimedia Commons. Licence CC BY-SA 2.0.
Victorian economist Alfred Marshall argued that it was no accident that free societies and coal-powered industries are found together.
© Peter Trimming, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Reynard the Fox was mortified to hear his efforts to rescue Isegrim’s wife from a frozen lake had been misinterpreted.
Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
However loud his critics shouted their disapproval, Abraham Lincoln would neither deprive them of free speech nor change his opinions.
By Nikolai Nevrev (1830–1904), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Boris Godunov was crowned Tsar of All Russia in 1598 in the belief that Tsar Ivan’s son Dmitry was dead — but was he?
By George Townshend (1724-1807), via the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: ? Public domain.
Following the disastrous Seven Years’ War, France agreed to quit Canada and leave it to the British, which was not at all what the local tribesmen wanted.