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  Social history at the National Archives
 Ten-hour day for British women and children 1847
 
 Gold rush in Australia 1851
 
  1851 Gold rush in New South Wales, photograph of 1851
National Archives, Kew
 
 End of Crimean War 1856
 
 Victoria Cross c. 1857 Crimean War heroes, 1857
National Archives, Kew
 
 Public executions end in London 1868 Gallows plan, 1881
National Archives, Kew
 
 The ten yearly census is taken 1871 Census return for Albert Square in 1871
National Archives, Kew
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Photographs are taken of prison inmates c. 1871 Prisoners in Oxford Gaol
National Archives, Kew
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 Victoria proclaimed Empress of India 1876 Recipe for Empire Christmas pudding
National Archives, Kew
 
 Jack the Ripper 1888
 
  1888 Letter and postcard signed by Jack the Ripper in 1888
National Archives, Kew
 
 Wilde has first stage hit 1892
 
 Importance of Being Earnest 1895
 
 Wilde loses to Queensberry 1895 The fatal card from Queensberry to Oscar Wilde in 1895
National Archives, Kew
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 Wilde gets two years' hard labour 1895
 
 Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys c. 1908 Baden-Powell photographed with Scoutmasters in 1911
National Archives, Kew
 
 Titanic hits iceberg 1912 List of drowned passengers on the Titanic
National Archives, Kew
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 Hitler is German chancellor 1933
 
 Hindenburg dies 1934
 
  1934 Nazi cigarette cards, c.1937
National Archives, Kew
 
 Hitler openly rearms Germany 1935
 
 Horrors of Buchenwald revealed 1945 List of child survivors from Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1945
National Archives, Kew
 
 Belsen worse than Buchenwald 1945 Concentration camp survivors from Belsen in 1945
National Archives, Kew
 
 Immigrants to UK on Empire Windrush 1948 Passenger list for the SS Empire Windrush
National Archives, Kew
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 Ruth Ellis is hanged 1955 Record of Ruth Ellis's execution in 1955
National Archives, Kew