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An irate coal merchant squares up to the oh-so-righteous gentleman who didn’t like the way he was treating his horse.
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Posted November 27 2018
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John Wesley wrote to a young William Wilberforce to encourage him in his campaign against the slave trade.
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Posted November 27 2018
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David Livingstone relives the historic moment when he became the first European to see the Victoria Falls.
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Posted June 17 2018
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Four years before the bloody American civil war, Dr David Livingstone proposed a peaceful way to rid the world of slavery.
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Posted June 16 2018
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Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.
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Posted June 7 2018
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Young inventor James Watt’s life in London was overshadowed by the perpetual fear of being snatched.
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Posted March 16 2018