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Charles I and his Parliament

By Clay Lane

Charles took his rights and duties as a King with religious seriousness, but Parliament’s sense of both right and duty was just as strong.

Press Agents

By William Thomas Stead

When Lord Salisbury asked the Russian Minister of the Interior how many agents the Tsar had in India, the reply came as a shock.

Grace Darling

By Clay Lane

Mild-mannered Grace Darling persuaded her father to let her help him rescue the survivors of a shipwreck.

The Price of Treachery

Based on an account by Charlotte Yonge

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.

The Peterloo Massacre

By William Edward Armytage Axon

A rowdy but good-humoured crowd gathered in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to protest against electoral malpractice and Government cronyism.

The Bluebell Line

By Clay Lane

The Bluebell line in Sussex was the first failing British Railways line to be taken over by volunteers.

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