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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.
From the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.
By Gottfried Mind (1768-1814), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A stranger warns the people of Shorapur that they will come to regret their hospitality.
By Thomas M. Hemy (1852-1931), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.
From the British Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A Roman general asks his officers to decide where their priorities lie.