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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.
For Today • January 9 • The Feast of St Wulfstan of Worcester
Servants of the People A US Congressman tells the House why they mustn’t censor the press.
Posted Today • The Copy Book
How the Cobra Got His Spectacles John Wood shares the wonder of the Indian cobra’s hood, in science and in myth.
Posted Yesterday • The Copy Book
Naughty Eppie Silas Marner has to harden his heart and teach little Eppie a lesson she will remember.
Posted January 20 • The Copy Book
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
Person, Object, Action! Make up sentences using these phrases, making sure you put plenty of action in.
Posted January 14 • Think and Speak
The Abuse of Literacy Reading and writing should have taught the people more than name-calling and how to manipulate opinion.
Posted January 13 • The Copy Book
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
A Reckless Indifference to Life In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.
Posted January 11 • The Copy Book
