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By George W. Joy (1844-1925), via Wikimedia Commons.
General Gordon’s death was a sensation and a scandal in its day.
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By Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735–1811), via the National Trust and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Robert Clive helped to establish a lasting bond between India and Britain, laying the foundations of modern India.
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An English monk warned of a flaw in the world’s most widely-used calendar.
© David Dixon, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Only an anonymous tip-off prevented England losing her sovereignty as well as her King.
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Thomas Clarkson believed that Africans were being forced into slavery in the West Indies, but could he prove it to the British public?
© Christine Matthews, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp had a court order preventing Thomas Lewis being shipped off to slavery, but he had to find him first.