... British stage 1 836: Three killed at Great Corby Cumbria in the first fatal railway derailment 1857: Birth of novelist Joseph Conrad 1894: Death of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson 1 967: in South Africa Dr Christian Barnard performed the first heart ...

... English countryside Later he began ploughing his way through books by the likes of Conan Doyle Kipling Edgar Wallace and Joseph Conrad But it was not until he met a young man recently injured in the trenches of the First World War who was his English teacher ...