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Dr Wollaston Clay Lane

William Hyde Wollaston discovered new elements and helped Faraday to greatness, all from the top of a tea-tray.

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Drake’s Drum Sir Henry Newbolt

In time of crisis, so the legend goes, Sir Francis Drake will come to our aid again, as once he did against the Spanish Armada.

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Dud Dudley Clay Lane

The 17th-century entrepreneur developed a way of smelting iron with coke rather than charcoal, but the Civil War frustrated his plans.

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Dunstan’s Deliverance Roger of Wendover

In 978, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dunstan, was being battered in a stormy meeting when he — along with England’s rich monastic heritage — had a miraculous escape.

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Earl Stanhope and the Re-Invention of Printing Clay Lane

Britain never knew she was a nation of voracious readers until printing entered the steam age.

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Early Warning Charles H. Ross

An Italian businessman and his family in 18th century Messina owed their lives to their pet cats.

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