Elizabethan courtier and soldier Sir Philip Sidney shows that a nobleman can also be a gentleman.

The unsung surveyor from Cheshire, who built railways and made friends across the world.

George Stephenson won the admiration of French navvies by showing them how a Geordie works a shovel.

Emma tries to reconcile her father to the unaccountable tastes of his nearest and dearest.

Sir Walter Scott warned that schoolchildren must not expect to be entertained all the time.

Pauline de Meulan’s magazine Publiciste was close to going out of business when an anonymous contributor stepped in.