True Tales from an Austere Kingdom

True Tales from an Austere Kingdom

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True Tales from an austere kingdom (1)

In times like this, rumour spreads quicker than the plague, and when I awoke that March morning the streets were already full of people rejoicing,...
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True Tales from an austere kingdom (2)

I was feeling considerably under the weather and decided to pay a visit to the door of Dr Frobisher, my personal physician. Alas, I arrived there to...

True tales from an austere kingdom (3)

Parliament was in uproar. It so happened that the financiers tasked with examining the king’s books had discovered that he had less than one million...

True tales from an austere kingdom (4)

There is no mob in the world so fearful as a London mob. Such is the entry in my diary for the time of the coal price riots. Having seen more of the...

True Tales from an Austere Kingdom - Inflation

I hailed a cab to take me to my club. "That'll be a penny guvnor, up front if you don't mind." "I do mind, actually," I said. "I am used to being...
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True tales from an austere kingdom - the great pandemic

During the great pandemic the poor and wretched were more wretched than usual. With many factories closed and most trades severely reduced, the poor...
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True Tales from an Austere Kingdom - The Horse Pills

The London papers were full of it. "Plague closes London", "Record Numbers Dead". Consequently there was virtually nobody at my club, so I sat with...
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True tales from an austere kingdom – the Disability in work act

For once the government’s austerity measures have hit the very people they were meant to help – the hard-working middle classes. And what caused this...