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Remington began manufacturing the first practical typewr
How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing
John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry
Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives
BETH felt her heart pound as she made haste towards the Whitechapel Road. Why had Mrs Mears let out such a cry and thrown down the newspaper with unseemly urgency? Why had she bidden her maid to fetch
Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…
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