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© Kenneth Allen, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
An English sailor became the target of the first worldwide manhunt following an audacious act of piracy.
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Ethel Smyth puts on a show for a self-declared music enthusiast.
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Wilkins Micawber had little to give David Copperfield at their parting, save two words of advice.
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George Stephenson was only too pleased to save the Government from its scientific advisers.
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Fursey was a 7th-century Irish monk whose visions of the afterlife made a great impression on St Bede.
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Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.