Sarah Martin: an unsung heroine of prison reform
Few people have heard of Sarah Martin (1791-1843). She was a poor uneducated dressmaker who lived and died in obscurity in Norfolk. Yet she did an incalculable amount of good, and achieved just as much as John Howard and Elizabeth Fry.
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John Smeaton and the Eddystone Light
For generations the Eddystone rocks, just nine miles off the south-western peninsula of Britain, fearful reefs of granite, were the terror of mariners. Many were the lives lost and ships destroyed within sight of home.
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Special dates in July

July is the month for haymaking, the Henley Regatta, St James's Day, and the age-old ceremony of swan-upping. Read more about what happend in July …

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The pioneering explorer John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke
Some said that he hadn’t discovered the source of the Nile. But he had. Some said that he had killed himself. But probably he hadn’t.

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Parisian Cafes

Parisian Cafes
Cafes are a French tradition. French citizens believe it is their right to read newspapers, to talk loudly, and to enjoy all the other advantages of a café, during the space of at least six hours, on the condition of ordering one cup of coffee or a single thimbleful of brandy!

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