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    • Sarah Martin: an unsung heroine of prison reform
    • John Smeaton and the Eddystone Light
    • Special dates in July
    • The pioneering explorer John Hanning Speke
    • Parisian Cafes
    • The Whistling Oyster
    • Jonas Hanway, the first British person to use an umbrella
    • Elizabeth Fry: dedicated to the cause of the prisoner, the ragged, the illiterate, and the outcast
    • The Shameful Practice of Slavery
    • Stanley finds Livingstone
    • The daily task of going for water
    • The Hard Lives of the Young Covent Garden Flower Girls
    • The English Village Weyland - the Changing Role of the Blacksmith
    • Mining occupations
    • Cookery Lessons at a Victorian Board School
    • Peruvian Bark: a remedy for malaria made from the bark of the cinchona tree
    • Houses of Snow - the Inuit Igloo
    • Those in Peril - Our Brave Lifeboatmen
    • Chained Libraries
    • The cat Hodge, the favourite pet of Dr Samuel Johnson
    • London Street Traders
    • The Woodland Craft of Charcoal Burning
    • Who were the mysterious Druids?
    • Bathing Machines and the Great British Seaside Holiday
    • The Ancient Tradition of Catching Eels
    • The Grand Family Sport of Ducking for Apples
    • Turned Snakeskin - Serpentine Fancy Goods from the Lizard Peninsula
    • The Monday Blues: the housewife's weekly labours at the wash tub
    • A Romantick, Holy Place - The Old Church of St Boniface at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight
    • Pandemonium on the Water: the Victorian quest for the quiet life on the river
    • Please - No Lobbing or Volleying: How good tennis behaviour helps a young woman in Victorian society
    • Weird and Wonderful Animals: Walking in the Zoo is the OK Thing to Do
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