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A line of children at the Alexandra Orphanage on Haverstock Hill, North London, April 1932. Adoption records

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Patients at Bethlem lunatic asylum, c.1860

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Victorian boxer Jack Wannop lands an uppercut on Birmingham's Josh Cosnett in 1890

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Irish ancestry. Farmers in Glenshesk, County Atrim, c. 1900

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