The Story of the Amulet by E. NesbitDell, 1987 (originally T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Adventures in time and in space, this time: ancient Egypt, Babylon, Atlantis. In this book, Nesbit’s politics are more obvious than in the previous two (the children visit a future utopian London, where the Thames runs clean and children choose their own areas of concentration in school, and workers are no longer poor and miserable). The childrens’ befriending of a “learned gentleman” made me grin, as did a particularly eventful trip to the British Museum.