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**Howard Brown** · October 24, 2020, 12:07 PM

October 24, 2020

This blog post provides a modest update to curator Margaret Makepeace?s 2012 and 2016 blog posts on Untold Lives - Whatever happened to Eliza Armstrong? and Eliza Armstrong ? still elusive! Readers are encouraged to refresh their memory of Margaret?s posts before reading on here.

(Eliza was the young girl 'purchased' by W. T. Stead years prior to this...an event which became the famous 'Modern Tribute To Babylon'

Eliza Armstrong ? Another Piece of the Puzzle

Eliza Armstrong – Another Piece of the Puzzle

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/10/eliza-armstrong-another-piece-of-the-puzzle.html

This blog post provides a modest update to curator Margaret Makepeace’s 2012 and 2016 blog posts on Untold Lives - Whatever happened to Eliza Armstrong? and Eliza Armstrong – still elusive! Readers are encouraged to refresh their memory of Margaret’s posts before reading on here. A letter from Eliza West...

**Howard Brown** · November 14, 2020, 07:51 AM

November 14, 2020

A fatal pub brawl and its consequences

A fatal pub brawl and its consequences

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/11/a-fatal-pub-brawl-and-its-consequences.html

The saying goes that fate can turn on a sixpence, but for my great-great-grandfather John Barlow (1843-1884) it turned on a pint. On 29 December 1884, John was having a drink after work in the Farmer’s Arms, New Ferry, when he accidentally picked up the wrong pint of beer and...

**Howard Brown** · November 15, 2020, 07:21 AM

November 15, 2020

The creation of the police and the rise of detective fiction

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https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-creation-of-the-police-and-the-rise-of-detective-fiction

**Howard Brown** · November 21, 2020, 09:56 AM

November 21, 2020

Stand and deliver! Cross-dressing highwaywomen in broadside ballads

Stand and deliver! Cross-dressing highwaywomen in broadside ballads

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/11/stand-and-deliver-cross-dressing-highwaywomen-in-broadside-ballads.html

You’ve heard of highwaymen, but what about highwaywomen? Female highway robbers definitely existed in the 17th and 18th centuries. They worked alone, as part of a gang, or with husbands. They appear in the records of county session court trials and in other sources like the Newgate Calendar. They were...

**Howard Brown** · February 19, 2021, 04:48 PM

February 19, 2021

Education in Victorian Britain

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https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/education-in-victorian-britain?fbclid=IwAR2Ixib_PRHQ_M2xqCOA82D2z0sc4oaLL6MUz4cs2dkiAdb93irdCpU-6nA#

**Howard Brown** · April 9, 2021, 09:07 AM

April 9, 2021

Non-essential retail in nineteenth-century London

Non-essential retail in nineteenth-century London

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2021/04/non-essential-retail-in-nineteenth-century-london.html

As we look forward to the re-opening of non-essential retail outlets in England, we’d like to share a book about nineteenth-century London shops. Nathaniel Whittock’s On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London published in 1840 has illustrated descriptions of a variety of businesses and is available...

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