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Samuel Pepys’s diary
Samuel Pepys began writing his famous diary every day from lst January 1660 until nine years later,…
Emily Brontë
Born two centuries ago in 1818, Emily Brontë was part of an amazing family in Yorkshire which…
Sir V.S. Naipaul
The writer Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad (“V.S.”) Naipaul died in August 2018, just short of his 86th birthday.…
“It’s just not cricket”
It is known that the game of cricket was played in England as far back as the…
Land’s End signpost
Land’s End is on the south-western tip of mainland Cornwall and this signpost will have featured in…