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 Captain Cook sails for Pacific |
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1768 |
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1787 |
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| Convicts settled in Sydney Cove |
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1788 |
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| Map of Australia showing the distribution of convicts, c.1820
National Archives, Kew
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National Archives, Kew
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 Mutiny on Bounty |
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1789 |
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| Bligh's account in 1790 of the mutiny on the Bounty
National Archives, Kew
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| Fry campaigns for women prisoners |
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| Thomas Cook invents package tour |
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1841 |
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| Travel poster for Cook's Tours, 1904
National Archives, Kew
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| British campaign against slave trade in west Africa |
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National Archives, Kew
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| Income tax reintroduced in Britain |
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c. 1842 |
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| Victoria and Albert pay income tax in a Punch cartoon of 1842
National Archives, Kew
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| Mines Act protects women and children |
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1842 |
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| Pit girls photographed in 1893 near Wigan
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| Ten-hour day for British women and children |
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1847 |
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1851 |
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| End of Crimean War |
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1856 |
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| Victoria Cross |
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| Crimean War heroes, 1857
National Archives, Kew
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| Public executions end in London |
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1868 |
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| Gallows plan, 1881
National Archives, Kew
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| The ten yearly census is taken |
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1871 |
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| Census return for Albert Square in 1871
National Archives, Kew
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| Photographs are taken of prison inmates |
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c. 1871 |
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| Prisoners in Oxford Gaol
National Archives, Kew
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| Victoria proclaimed Empress of India |
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1876 |
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| Recipe for Empire Christmas pudding
National Archives, Kew
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| Jack the Ripper |
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1888 |
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1888 |
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| Letter and postcard signed by Jack the Ripper in 1888
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| Wilde has first stage hit |
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1892 |
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| Importance of Being Earnest |
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1895 |
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| The fatal card from Queensberry to Oscar Wilde in 1895
National Archives, Kew
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| Wilde gets two years' hard labour |
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1895 |
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| Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys |
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| Baden-Powell photographed with Scoutmasters in 1911
National Archives, Kew
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| Titanic hits iceberg |
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1912 |
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| List of drowned passengers on the Titanic
National Archives, Kew
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| Hitler is German chancellor |
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1933 |
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| Hindenburg dies |
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1934 |
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1934 |
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| Nazi cigarette cards, c.1937
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| Hitler openly rearms Germany |
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1935 |
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| Horrors of Buchenwald revealed |
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1945 |
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| List of child survivors from Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1945
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| Belsen worse than Buchenwald |
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1945 |
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