Such was the reputation of the Prussian army in the days of the Frederick the Great that even foreigners wanted to join.

A little anecdote about a schoolmaster who wasn’t as much of a Wackford Squeers as he appeared to be.

A gentleman travelling home from London by train reached his destination carrying more than he set out with.

Sir Nicholas L’Estrange recalls two astonishing eyewitness accounts of the resourcefulness the fox.

When William Shakespeare agreed to be godfather to Ben Jonson’s baby boy, he forgot that he would have to think of a gift for his christening.

Charles Villiers Stanford found it necessary to play dumb on a visit to snowy Leipzig.