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The Character of George Stephenson

By Samuel Smiles

A self-made man who never forgot his humble beginnings.

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Edmond Halley

By Clay Lane

Edmond Halley will forever be associated with the comet named after him, but his greatest achievement was getting Sir Isaac Newton to publish ‘Principia Mathematica’.

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Fashionable Freedom

By Thomas Clarkson

Josiah Wedgwood’s promotional gift made Abolitionism fashionable.

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Fiddler Tam

Music by Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kellie

An 18th century bon viveur and virtuoso violinist, Thomas Erskine is currently being ‘rediscovered’ by the classical music industry.

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The First Train Journey by Steam

By Clay Lane

Richard Trevithick’s boss hailed the engineer as a genius. Today he’d have been fired. (Oh, and the train was delayed.)

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The Harmonious Blacksmith

Music by George Frideric Handel

Handel called it ‘Air and Variations’, but by Charles Dickens’s day everyone knew it as ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’.

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