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Today in 1603 England and Scotland shared a King!
In 1605 his Parliament was subject to the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the English protestant establishment.
Reginald Frontispiece Ltd
On leaving school in 1960, I worked in Fleet Street, in press photography. My interest in the printed image expanded to include vintage and antique prints. What was a collection became a business!
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The establishment of Salt Lake City in Salt Lake Valley, Utah
Our antique print from The Illustrated London News, published in 1858, depicts a Mormon family in an ox-drawn cart approaching the newly established Salt Lake City.
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Keeping the Bard of Avon's works under scrutiny
Formed in 1403, the Worshipful Company of Stationers received a Royal Charter in 1557, and thereby held a monopoly over publishing.
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Bristol launches first iron-hulled, screw-driven ship in the world
Scuttled in 1937, this may have been the end of Brunel's vessel were it not for the late Sir Jack Arnold Hayward who funded her raising and return to dry dock in Bristol.
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Tynwald Court, Isle of Man in 1857
The name Tynwald is derived from 'Old Norse' meaning the meeting place of the assembly.
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West India Docks aquatint published in 1810
Our illustration of the West India Docks, published in 1810, is from Ackermann's "Microcosm."
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A costly railway in Sudan and the fall of Gladstone's second government
Having completed only 20 miles of track (of the 280 miles proposed) the project was abandoned.
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The other Charles Dickens's map of the Isle of Dogs and environs
Somehow, modern planners have managed to move North Greenwich south of the River Thames and located it at Greenwich Peninsula, aka Bugsbys Marsh.
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Discovered, lost, and re-discovered; Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean
A "small high uninhabited island, not above 4 or 5 miles round ... scarce better than a large rock in the Ocean"
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The day James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States was shot
Garfield's presidency was the shortest in the History of the United States at little more than six months.
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The Australian Northern Territory's progress toward statehood
Not until 1869, with the establishment of Darwin, was any European population permanently settled on the hostile northern coastline.
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Happy 125th anniversary to Tower Bridge, London
Spanning the river between Southwark on its south bank and Tower Hamlets on the north, it is maintained by the City of London Corporation's Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust.