English explorer Major Edmund Lockyer tries to buy a puppy in Queensland, but ends up paying the owner to keep him.
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The Bluebell Line
ByClay Lane
The Bluebell line in Sussex was the first failing British Railways line to be taken over by volunteers.
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The Battle of Waterloo
ByClay Lane
The Russians had checked it in the East, but in the West the expansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire was far from over.
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A Great Human Effort
ByJohn Masefield
The Gallipoli landings in 1915 did not achieve the Admiralty’s goals,
but for John Masefield they remained one of the proudest moments of the Great War.
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The Gallipoli Landings
ByClay Lane
By 1915, the Allies were struggling to break through Germany’s Western Front,
and so began looking for another line of attack.
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Three Ages of Empire
BySir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Sir Charles Lucas looked back at the role of the Government, the military and private enterprise during three centuries of British adventure overseas.
