Nostalgia
The history of Baden Powell and Scouting for Boys
A youth movement that has become the largest multi-national organisation of its kind
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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A look back at the opening of the Royal Exchange in the City
Occupied by the Lloyd's insurance market for nearly 150 years
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Queen Victoria dies aged 81
She had inherited the throne at the age of 18
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The day the Charles Dickens' newspaper launched
The conscience of Victorian Britain
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Alma who or what?
When news reached London victory guns were fired at the Tower of London
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John Wilkes Radical Member of Parliament
Expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel
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The Birth of Tudor England
Elizabeth of York remained the queen consort of England from her marriage to Henry in 1486 until her death in 1503
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The Hartley Pit disaster, Northumberland
The exploring parties have seen little boys in the arms of their fathers
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More than 250 years ago, The British Museum opened its doors
The British Museum was established this week in 1753
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Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England on this date in 1559
Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
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The Dreyfus Affair of the late 1800s
Sent to Devil's Island where he spent nearly five years
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Demolition of Reculver Church in Kent
Were it not for the intervention of Trinity House, who purchased the towers for £100, there would be nothing left of Reculver today