WG's Birthday Party
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On a hot morning in July 1898, the sporting world gathered at Lord's to celebrate the fiftieth...
Cats in Art
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The cat has been a favourite subject of artists across cultures from prehistory until the present...
Louisa Waterford and John Ruskin: 'For You Have Not Falsely Praised'
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Louisa Waterford (1818-91), modest, retiring, of good family, renowned for her beauty, and with...
The Children History Forgot
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Once upon a time, Britain forged a mighty industrial empire - built with the blood, sweat and tears...
The Thames Iron Works 1837-1912: A Major Shipbuilder on the Thames
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The Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company was one of the great private enterprises of the...
The Sherlock Homes
Arthur Conan Doyle and Sidney Paget
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"Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me...
Drinking with Dickens
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Drinking with Dickens is a light-hearted sketch by Cedric Dickens, the great-grandson of Charles...
The Uncommercial Traveller
Charles Dickens and Daniel Tyler
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At the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual...
The Dead Woman of Deptford
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THE DEAD WOMAN OF DEPTFORD is the sixth Inspector Ben Ross mystery set in Victorian London from...
The Figure in the Carpet
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'Did she know and if she knew would she speak?' The story of an unsolved literary mystery that...