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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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913

A Bit of Luck for his Lordship

George Stephenson was only too pleased to save the Government from its scientific advisers.

914

The Vision of St Fursey

Fursey was a 7th-century Irish monk whose visions of the afterlife made a great impression on St Bede.

915

Free Trade, Free Peoples

Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.

916

All that Glisters is not Gold

Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.

917

The Mischief-Maker

A stranger warns the people of Shorapur that they will come to regret their hospitality.

918

Sunderland Albion

A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.