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An Englishman in Exile

By William Cobbett

Faced with a choice between silence, dungeon or exile, William Cobbett chose exile — and then had to make sense of it.

How to Learn a Language

By William Cobbett

When William Cobbett told his son James to be conscientious about his grammar lessons, he was drawing on hard-won experience.

Judges’ Wigs

By William Cobbett

On a countryside ramble in West Sussex, William Cobbett finds the weather turning against him.

Mrs Lock’s Radical Ride

By William Cobbett

William Cobbett was delighted with one young woman’s protest against Mr Pitt’s ingenious ways of raising money.

Of Hares, Hounds and Red Herrings

By William Cobbett

In January 1807, newspapers breathlessly reported that Napoleon Bonaparte’s rampage across Europe was at an end — but was it true?

‘God Never Sends Mouths Without Sending Meat’

By William Cobbett

Riding through Sussex, William Cobbett comes across a large family relaxing together in front of their charming cottage.

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