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1627
The Harrying of the North Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens laments William the Conqueror’s brutal rampage through rebellious Durham and Yorkshire.

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1628
The Hat that Changed the World Clay Lane

Young William’s hat caught the eye of Matthew Boulton, and the world was never the same again.

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1629
‘The Helmet! The Helmet!’ Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

On the day that Manfred, Prince of Otranto, expected his son Conrad to marry the Marquis of Vicenza’s daughter, grotesque tragedy struck.

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1630
The Hermit of Handbridge Charlotte Yonge

King Harold died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Or did he?

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1631
The Heron and the Crab Clay Lane

An ageing Heron finds himself a little too stiff to fish for himself, so he thinks of a way to get the fish to do it for him.

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1632
The Hetton Railway Clay Lane

The railway earned a special place in history as the first to be designed for steam locomotives only.

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