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A Declaration of Independence

By Thomas Jefferson

On July 4th, 1776, a group of American colonists gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to present delegates of the Thirteen Colonies with a historic document.

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Posted February 8 2021

92

‘London Was, but Is No More!’

By John Evelyn

The day after the Great Fire of London finally burned itself out, John Evelyn walked through the charred streets.

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Posted February 4 2021

93

Unrivalled Grace

By Sir Henry Craik

Sir Henry Craik had heard such glowing reports of Agra’s Taj Mahal, that he was afraid it might prove to be an anticlimax.

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Posted February 3 2021

94

Imperfect Government

By Algernon Sidney

Politicians who demand that everyone in the country unite behind their vision of society are standing in the way of real progress.

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Posted February 2 2021

95

Ranji’s Revenge

By W. G. Grace

Cricketing legend W. G. Grace tells a story illustrating how fellow-batsman K. S. Ranjitsinhji set about winning the hearts of English cricketers.

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Posted December 20 2020

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Bungling Tinkers!

By Sir Sidney Low

Sir Sidney Low blamed the recent catalogue of war and revolution on out-of-touch diplomats who had tried to hammer the peoples of Europe into artificial unity.

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Posted December 15 2020

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★ Wulfstan and the Seal of Approval William the Conqueror’s purge of the English Church was halted by a humble bishop and a dead king.

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Servants of the People A US Congressman tells the House why they mustn’t censor the press.

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How the Cobra Got His Spectacles John Wood shares the wonder of the Indian cobra’s hood, in science and in myth.

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Naughty Eppie Silas Marner has to harden his heart and teach little Eppie a lesson she will remember.

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Music Video Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children’s Intermezzo

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Vocabulary Compose sentences to illustrate the meaning of these words.

Posted January 20 • Think and Speak

A European Fraud Dostoevsky had to break it to Moscow’s students that ordinary Russians found their brand of politics patronising.

Posted January 19 • The Copy Book

Pronunciation Suggest words in which the letter ‘o’ is pronounced as it is in ‘comely’.

Posted January 18 • Think and Speak

Tea Make as many words as you can using the letters of one nine-letter word. Can you beat our score?

Posted January 17 • Think and Speak

Film Video Professor Smith reluctantly confides his ‘guilty secret’ to his students.

Posted January 16

Sentegrams Unjumble these sentences from the novels of George Eliot.

Posted January 15 • Think and Speak

There’s Nae Good Luck in Durham Gaol On his visits to Durham Gaol, prison reformer John Howard found conditions that were all too familiar.

Posted January 15 • The Copy Book

Music Video Alexander Borodin: Petite Suite: VI. Rêverie

Posted January 14

Person, Object, Action! Make up sentences using these phrases, making sure you put plenty of action in.

Posted January 14 • Think and Speak

Rhymes Suggest words that rhyme with ‘love’.

Posted January 13 • Think and Speak

The Abuse of Literacy Reading and writing should have taught the people more than name-calling and how to manipulate opinion.

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Among Old Friends ‘Alpha of the Plough’ hoped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not treat his old friends as he treated his favourite books.

Posted January 12 • The Copy Book

Music Video Orlando Gibbons: Thus Angels Sung

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A Reckless Indifference to Life In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.

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Music Video Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 28 (Irish): II. Allegro molto vivace

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Vocabulary Express each of these phrases in a single word.

Posted January 10 • Think and Speak