Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Sir Charles Lucas argued that the Industrial Revolution happened at just the right time for everyone in the British Empire.
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Hastings County Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Sir Charles Lucas looked back at the role of the Government, the military and private enterprise during three centuries of British adventure overseas.
© Sage Ross, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
An attempt to pay down the National Debt provoked a frenzy of financial speculation.
Allen &co. (1902), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A good knowledge of history is essential if we are to understand words such as liberty and democracy.
© Chinmaya Panda, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Charles II was thinking about handing Bombay back to the Portuguese, when an Indian rebel stepped in.
By Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
When Lord Cochrane went to a fancy dress ball in Valetta, his costume nearly got him killed.