Telescopic Philanthropy Size:XS: 20 x 15cm September 14

September 14

The Wobblies: Parading guardsmen threw a fit of the wobblies on Saturday (9-6-79)

Birthplace of John Howard

'A Rake's Progress'

St Benet Paul's Wharf replaced an earlier church destroyed in the Great Fire of London

Telescopic Philanthropy Size:XS: 20 x 15cm September 14'Telescopic Philanthropy', 1865. 'Little London Arab. Please 'M, Ain't We Black Enough to be Cared For? (With Mr. Punch's Compliments to Lord Stanley.)' In his novel, Bleak House, Dickens had highlighted and satirised the growing numbers of the middle classes who expended much time, effort and money on raising funds to 'civilise' (particularly black) foreign peoples, rather than concentrating on the problems of the poor at home. This 'telescopic