The First Council of Nicaea : As soon the Roman Emperor Constantine declared religious liberty in his Empire, the Christian Church gave him cause for regret.

Wilfrid Israel : Wilfrid Israel used his Berlin department store as cover for smuggling thousands of Jewish children to safety in Britain.

The Glorious First of June : Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.

The Coronation of Anne Boleyn : The weight of the crown that Anne Boleyn wore proved too heavy to bear.

Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.

An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.

Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.

Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.

Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.

Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.

Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.

Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?

They Might Not Need Me : Read these lines of verse out aloud.

The Turn : Ben Jonson tells us how we should measure a life well lived.

Music Video : Julius Benedict, Piano Concerto in E flat: II. Andante,

The Character of George Washington : Thomas Jefferson recalls the virtues (and a few faults) of the first US President.

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