Rudyard Kipling believed that a better appreciation of ancient Greece and Rome could help the English be less insular.

In the year that Ranjitsinhji put aside his bat to concentrate on being the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, journalist A. G. Gardiner looked back on his dazzling career.

Edmond Holmes, a former inspector of schools, reported back to the Board of Education on a pioneering system being developed in Italy.

Berwick Sayers tells how his friend, the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, set out on his last voyage.

Maria Montessori takes some of her pupils up onto a roof terrace, and witnesses a eureka moment.

High above the roof of the Amazonian rainforest, Professor Challenger sees something that eerily reminds him of home.