In 1845, aged 70, and with his fortune lost, Vidocq travelled to London, in the hope of opening up a private detective agency. That project did not materialize due to funds shortage. In reduced circumstances, he wrote letters to the new Sûreté head appealing for a government pension. Wh...
While he may have had good intentions (as the government would also claim it had – for the safety of England against Napoleon), because Philip tries to control Sylvia’s whole future and does not let her be free to make her own choice, he appears, to me, to be as tyrannical as the...
which is widely seen as the foundation of the 20th-centurywelfare state. The new Liberal government embarked upon a program of social legislation that involvedfree schoolmeals (1905), a school medical service (1907), and