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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.
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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.
From the Imperial War Museums collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.
© Tommy, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
After more than a month in the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula, Moses finds that the Israelites are growing rebellious.
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