What happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby School in the late 1830s? What kind of man grew out of the foul-mouthed, swaggering, cowardly toady who roasted fags for fun and howled when he was beaten himself? For more than a century the fate of history’s most notorious schoolboy remained a mystery - until, in 1966, ...