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Girls shower at a Woodcraft Folk meeting in Stanmore in 1947. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Britain’s green  pioneers

The repulse of a sortie during the Siege of Delhi, a conflict of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The rebels advance on a British battery, who repel them with swords, bayonets and rifles. A lithograph by E. Walker, after a drawing by Captain G. F. Atkinson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The myth of native-bashing