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Young Theseus sets out for Athens on foot to claim his kingdom, but the road is infested with giants, bandits and a savage sow.
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Sir Joshua Fitch urges Victorian society to let women make their own career choices – whatever they may be.
© Humphrey Bolton, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Report of the Newcastle Commission confirmed that there were no Dotheboys Halls among Yorkshire’s private schools.
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Mrs Squeers has lost the school spoon, and is uncomfortably frank about its importance.
By James Gillray (1756-1815), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the demand for hard evidence as a peculiarly English trait.
© Stephen Richards, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Richard Hannay was finding life in London a little slow until a self-confessed dead man walked into his rooms.