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Stuart Era

Long Ben

An English sailor became the target of the first worldwide manhunt following an audacious act of piracy.

Discovery and Invention

A Bit of Luck for his Lordship

George Stephenson was only too pleased to save the former Prime Minister from himself.

Lives of the Saints

The Vision of St Fursey

Fursey was a 7th-century Irish monk whose visions of the afterlife made a great impression on St Bede.

Liberty and Prosperity

Free Trade, Free Peoples

Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.

Character and Conduct

All that Glisters is not Gold

Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.

Sport and Sportsmen

Sunderland Albion

A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.