In order better to appreciate the use of argot among thieves, a visit to a few public bars of the third-class public houses of Kennington or in the immediate vicinity of the Elephant and Castle would prove of great value, as hoisters, whizzers, tea-leaves, con-heads, broadsmen and brass nobs […]

In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.

All seemed to be set fair for English power across the Channel but in 1369 the new French king, Charles V, known as Charles the Wise, reasserted his feudal rights over all the territories of France.

Two distinct vein systems are to be noted as a result of the asbestosization of the serpentine.