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‘Life in Victorian times was arguably considerably more dangerous than now, if the newspaper reports of the time are anything to go by, writes Jeremy Clay…’

10 truly bizarre Victorian deaths

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Jeremy Clay

Jeremy Clay

At first, Jeremy Clay wanted to be a soldier. A war hero. The kind of steel-jawed Tommy from the comic books, who single-handedly storms a machine gun post to anguished cries of aieeeeeeeee from the enemy.   But after losing a primary school fight to a younger kid who grew up to be a poet, h...More about Jeremy Clay