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 Agincourt on St Crispin's day |
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| Indenture committing an English gentleman to fight with Henry V in France
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 Swans beaks are marked for ownership |
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| Marks for swans' beaks
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| Catherine Howard writes an indiscreet letter |
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| Catherine Howard beheaded in Tower |
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| Letter from Catherine Howard to Thomas Culpeper, 1541
National Archives, Kew
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| Gunpowder Plot damages Catholic cause |
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1605 |
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| Confession of Guy Fawkes in 1605
National Archives, Kew
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| British settlers in Jamestown |
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1607 |
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| List compiled in 1619 of the burgesses of Jamestown
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| Plague kills Londoners |
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1665 |
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| Inventory of a plague victim, 1665
National Archives, Kew
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| Secret marriages are performed in the district of the Fleet prison |
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c. 1718 |
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| Fleet Clandestine Marriage Register
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| Dick Turpin in tangle with the law |
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| Indictment of Dick Turpin for stealing a black mare in 1739
National Archives, Kew
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| Captain Cook sails for Pacific |
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1768 |
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| Letter from Captain Cook in preparation for his first voyage
National Archives, Kew
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| Fleet carries convicts to Australia |
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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
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1788 |
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| Register of convicts on the First Fleet to Australia
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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
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| British campaign against slave trade in west Africa |
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c. 1841 |
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| Anti-slavery treaty with African chiefs
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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
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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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| Gold rush in Australia |
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1851 |
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| Gold rush in New South Wales, photograph of 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
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| Public executions end in London |
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1868 |
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| Gallows plan, 1881
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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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| Prisoners in Oxford Gaol
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| Victoria proclaimed Empress of India |
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1876 |
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| Recipe for Empire Christmas pudding
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