Subjects

Modern History

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Job’s City of Joy

The East India Company’s top agent in India was also the man who put Calcutta on the world map.

218

Long Ben

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

219

Sunderland Albion

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

220

The Girl in the Barn

Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.

221

‘Please Respect our Traditions’

Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens took his wartime protest straight to the top.

222

Srinivasa Ramanujan

A maths prodigy from Madras became so wrapped up in his sums that he forgot to pass his examinations.