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The City’s Sacred Victim
Cutting its way through Tower Hamlets in the heart of the East End, the road had long held a bad reputation, being close to the old Execution Dock in Wapping where pirates were left hanging to rot...
The Real Harry Flashman
Sellon enlisted at sixteen and spent several years in India. There he developed a taste for prostitutes and the bored wives of officers and diplomats...
Looking into Hell
During a visit in the winter of 1918, Rider Haggard – who believed in reincarnation – asked Rudyard Kipling if he thought the earth was one of the hells. His old friend replied that he did not think this, he was certain of it...