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1897
The Uganda Railway Winston Spencer Churchill

When it opened in 1901, the Uganda Railway still wasn’t in Uganda, and Westminster’s MPs were still debating whether or not to build it.

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1898
The Ugly Duckling Clay Lane

A misfit duckling grew up with rejection as a way of life, until he thought all hope was gone.

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1899
The United States of the Ionian Islands Clay Lane

The British liberated the Ionian islands from Napoleon, then gave them fifty happy years and the game of cricket.

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1900
The Unknown Warrior A. G. Gardiner

On the day that the Unknown Warrior was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, ‘Alpha of the Plough’ wondered if the country would prove worthy of him.

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1901
The Vast Depths of Infinity Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright offers his readers a way of thinking about the enormous distances involved in any description of the solar system.

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1902
The Verdict of History John Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Two of the Victorian Age’s most distinguished historians locked horns over the question of whether historians should be nice.

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