The Copy Book

There are six posts in The Copy Book assigned to 1824. To see all our posts in chronological order, go to the Tale of Years.

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Measured Government

By Napoleon Bonaparte

To Napoleon, the way that politicians in Paris had forced metric measurements on the public was a lesson in bad government.

A Nation of Shopkeepers

By Napoleon Bonaparte And Barry Edward O’Meara

The great French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte protested that in calling England ‘a nation of shopkeepers’ he had paid us a compliment.

An Appeal to the Ladies of England

By Manto Mavrogenous

Manto Mavrogenous hoped that her fellow women might show more solidarity with Greece than many men had done.

Autumn: A Dirge

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet Percy Shelley calls on November’s sister months to watch by the graveside of the dead Year.

Beethoven’s First

Everyone wanted to know who Beethoven’s favourite composer was.

Demetrius the Diver

Based on an article by Charles Dickens

A survivor of the infamous massacre of Chios in 1821 goes to Marseilles, but discovers he has not entirely left the Turks behind.