Dying in victorian britain

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

After a couple of brushes with death, I made a bold decision. But would my loved ones be shocked?

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200 years of Dickens on stage and screen

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u