Today
No date-specific lessons in the draft for today — showing three from the sample week.
On 11 July 1859, the biggest bell in Britain rang out over London for the very first time. Sixteen white horses had pulled it through cheering crowds. Two months later it cracked — and the crack is still there.
On 21 October 1805, a small British fleet met a much bigger French and Spanish one near a place in Spain called Cape Trafalgar. The British admiral was called Nelson, and he did something clever.
Robert Frost was an American poet. He wrote a short poem called 'October' that asks the morning to go slowly, so the leaves fall one by one.