Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Victorian Era’
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As Viceroy of India, Lord Ripon was rather more popular with the people of India than he was with some of his own civil servants.
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Meriel Talbot’s distinguished career in government came as no surprise to those who had seen her at the wicket.
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Composer Ethel Smyth starts telling the Archbishop of Canterbury a joke, and then wishes she hadn’t...
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Major-General Charles Napier, given the task of policing a Chartist rally in Manchester, was alarmed to hear the protestors had brought the big guns - literally.
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David Livingstone relives the historic moment when he became the first European to see the Victoria Falls.
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Four years before the bloody American civil war, Dr David Livingstone proposed a peaceful way to rid the world of slavery.