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A Bit of Luck for his Lordship
By Samuel Smiles
George Stephenson was only too pleased to save the Government from its scientific advisers.
272
The Vision of St Fursey
By Clay Lane
Fursey was a 7th-century Irish monk whose visions of the afterlife made a great impression on St Bede.
273
Free Trade, Free Peoples
By William Cobbett
Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.
274
All that Glisters is not Gold
By Henry Mayhew
Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.
275
Sunderland Albion
A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.
276
Caught in the Act
By Charles Burney
Young Thomas Arne goes to extreme lengths to conceal his musical talent from his family.
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