The clock in Victoria railway station, Bombay.

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Tale of Years

1938

in The Copy Book

There are two posts in The Copy Book assigned to 1938. To see all our posts in chronological order, go to the Tale of Years.

The Book That Made Kipling

Sir George MacMunn traces Kipling’s masterly handling of English and of storytelling to reading the King James Bible aloud.

Frank Foley

A mild-mannered clerk in the British Embassy’s passport office in Berlin, just before the outbreak of war in 1939, was not all he seemed to be.