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    George Colman (OW) and the Nonsense Club

    Article by Charlotte Robinson, Archives and Records Management Assistant, first published in The Camden, 2016 George Colman (1732-1794) was a theatre manager and playwright celebrated for his comic farces. He was a King’s Scholar in the 1740s and showed an early talent for lively satire. He was a little man, “without my shoes, little more than five feet in height”,…