Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• President Nixon visits China
• British Direct Rule imposed on Northern Ireland
• Three day week for industry inposed in the UK during miners strike
• Israeli atheletes killed by Arab terrorists during the Munich Olympics
• Idi Amin orders the expulsion of all Asians from Uganda
• Bobby Fischer Wins World Chess championship
• US Swimmer Mark Spitz wins 7 Olympic gold medals
• Duke of Windsor dies, aged 77

July (monthly) 25p

• "Covent Garden market at dawn
• Lord Butler: Education-the next reforms
• Reopening the Suez Canal by Jerome Caminada
• J.R.L. Anderson: London's River
• Neville Cardus: Cricket Oriental Style
• The Leading Story "The King who gave up his Throne"
• The are colour photographs of The Duke of Windsor and Wallace Simpson

August

• Cover Photo "Locomotive 0-6-0ST, owned by the Warwickshire Preservation Group, on the Severn Valley Railway at Bridgenorth"
• Alan Bailey: Changing London-the most dangerous street in Europe
• Peter Watson: The Clockwork body
• Ursula Robertsaw: Great Houses-Inspired Gothic
• Gordon Wilkins: London's three-ring motorway
• Julian Critchley: Back to Steam

Christmas Edition

• Cover photo of "An Allergy with Venus and Time" by Giambattista Tiepolo was rediscovered on the ceiling of the Arab Republic of Egypt's London Embassy
• Great stories regarding Christmas in America, Christmas 100 years ago, Re-creating Old London, The Treasure of Lobengula, etc.

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