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Today voters are going to the polls for local elections in England, Wales and Scotland – and to elec […]
When they write the story of Queen Victoria the picture portrayed is generally that of a slightly st […]
I think we forget how immediate news media is today. Here is an edition of The Western Times – Monda […]
November 1931 and The Hull Daily Mail were warning its readers of the perils of the dreaded Friday 1 […]
As we all know RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 causing the deaths of 1,514 people. However on the […]
I found this White Star Line advertisement in The Western Times – exactly 100 years old. Here they a […]
It’s 1950 and Mr. Clifford Gwilliam, the manager of the Theatre Royal, Exeter (Devon) is confidently […]
The 50th Jubilee of George III on the 25th October 1810 was a comparatively low-key affair. Two issu […]
Following the industrial revolution and certainly by the 1850′s pauperism in Victorian Great Britain […]
There is no doubt that some Victorians were a tad mad, unquestionably overzealous and darn-right e […]