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The theft discussed here was the latest in a series of robberies targeting major European museums, soon after a series of other high-profile heists. “Poppy Flowers” by Vincent van Gogh, stolen from Cairo's Khalil Museum in 2010, was never found. Neither was “Soldier on Horseback” by Anthony van...
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6 English farm labourers who were sentenced in March 1834 to 7 years’ transportation to an Australian penal colony for organising trade-union activities in Tolpuddle Dorset. Leaders George & James Loveless created a Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers’ lodge during the national wave of...
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Police court summons and photo, Nov 1911 Photo credit: Leeds Museums & Galleries Leonora Throp Cohen (1873–1978) was born in Leeds to Canova & Jane Throp. Her father was a stone carver but died in 1879 when Leonora was only 5, after he developed TB of the spine. This left her widowed...
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Read Tyrannicide Brief: Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson. Charles triggered the tragic civil wars (from 1642) when 1 in 10 Englishmen died. But in 1649, Parliament struggled to find a lawyer with guts to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the...