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Sir Titus Salt
By Clay Lane
His alpaca-wool mills near Bradford proved the social benefits of private enterprise in the right hands.
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The Star that Winked
John Goodricke’s observations of Algol won him the Copley Medal while still in his teens, despite his disability.
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The Story of Handel’s ‘Water Music’
Handel’s German boss fired the composer for spending all his time in London. When they met again, it was... rather awkward.
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The Story of ‘Messiah’
Music by George Frideric Handel
The first thing George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ‘Messiah’ did was to set a hundred and forty-two prisoners free.
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The Story of ‘Oliver Twist’
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens
Fate and a vicious professional thief named Fagin conspire to trap orphan Oliver Twist into a life of crime.
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The Tale of Beggar’s Bridge
The proof of Thomas Ferres’s rags-to-riches tale is quite literally written in stone, but popular lore adds some tantalising and romantic detail.
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