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© Richard Crowest Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two famous figures, one from the sciences and one from the arts, who turned suffering to advantage.
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© Roger Kidd, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
If freedom and democracy are to have any meaning, the public must be able to talk back to their governors.
© Bahnfrend, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Victorian MP Richard Cobden pleaded for Britain to set the world an example as a nation open for business.
© Kate Jewell, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
An eccentric, self-made businesswoman, who ‘made three fortunes and spent five’ in the campaign against the death penalty.
© Adrian Platt, Geogaph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alice was set a poetical test of wits by the kindly (but like all the other characters, utterly maddening) White Queen.
From the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A young Jewish girl is chosen as the Queen of Persia, but quickly finds she has enemies.
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