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Essex memories of odd census capers across the county
There have also been censuses on all sorts of things in Essex over the decades, from counting footpaths and even the numbers of deer roaming ...
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The odd history of Gannon’s Old Main
From the haunting legacy of one of Erie’s wealthiest families to a U.S. President allegedly trapping himself in a bathtub, ...
Inside Victorian London’s criminal underworld where women robbers ran riot & superstar East End boxers made a fortune
Londoners had to contend with two very different criminal gangs — a group of East End boxers and another of West End shoplifters. But it was the latter’s fists they feared most. The ...
80 Posts From The Victorian Era That Prove It Really Was A Different Time
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...
The Keene Sentinel20h
A Victorian con woman schemes for money and love in zesty novel
If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing ...
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How a Cairo craftswoman was inspired by the patterns of an English mansion
The 17th-century, red-brick English stately home of Blickling Hall, built to withstand months of rain and cold, is isolated by a surrounding moat and acres of pristine gardens and woodland. Over the ...