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The Illustrated London News 1911

• January 3rd - Seige of Sidney Street, 1000 troops and armed police, ended as anarchists burn to death
• January 21st - Publication of the discovery that cancer is spread by a virus
• February 21st - Ramsay MacDonald elected Labour Party leader
• June 23rd - George V crowned at Westminster Abbey
• July 1st - Union of South Africa became a British Dominion
• August 8th - Troops called in to control rioting strikers, fired on and killed one,in Liverpool
• August 22nd - Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre
• October 23rd - First model T Ford produced outside the United States. in Manchester
• December 10th - Madame Curie awarded her second Nobel prize
• December 14th - Captain Roald Amundsen (Norway) is the first man to the South Pole
• December 29th - Revolution in China - Manchu dynasty overthrown - Centuries of imperial control ended by the first Chinese republic. Dr Sun Yat Sen took power
• Italy declared war on Turkish troops in North africa
• The Titanic was launched with her sister ship Olympic,
• New copyright law protected musicians and writers works for 50 years
• Crystal Palace was bought for the nation
• Cubism shook the art world when it was displayed at the Salo d'Automne in Paris
• Gustav Mahler died in Vienna he was 50
• Strauss's Der Rosenkavelier was performed for the first time in Dresden
• The first Indianapolis 500 race took place in the USA
• Broadway Ziegfields Follies launched the Irving Berlin hit "Everybody's doing it"
• Parliament Act reduces powers of the House of Lords
• FW Woolworth founded

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January 7th

• Battle for Sidney Street

April 1st

• Race for the South Pole Scott v Amundsen

September 2nd

• (supp) The making of the ILN how the paper is produced each week

Xmas edition

• Cover by Abel Fairy?
• Enter the Plum Pudding J Barribal.
• Ill Met At The Meet Canton Woodville

Goblin Market Frank Craig Not Shown.

The Path to Home... Charles Crombie

Steel Against the Mistletoe... Lawson Wood

I Trowe That Countence Cannot Lie,.... Szankowski Not shown

On with the Dance.... Howard Sommerville Not shown

The Christmas Dinner Taken Captive Tony Sarg 2 page centerfold.(my Favorite)

Spilled Milk.... Harry Rountree

Christmas Under the Northern Skies S Baghot De La Bere

L'Allee Edmund Dulac

Fantoches Edmund Dulac

Beauty and the Beast Cecil Aldin(Very rare)

Alice in Wonderland Cecil Aldin(Very Rare)

Harmony.... G Bouy Not shown

Sitting to Partners S berg 2 pages. (Not shown) B+W

Advertisments Full page B+W unless noted

Enos Fruit Salt

James Buchanan Scotch Whisky Distillers Black & White Brand Ill Walter Kepoke?

Beechams Pills

Pears Soapmakers Back Cover not Shown by GWE

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