Time permitting I will research articles for you - fill in the form

If you would like to donate something to the upkeep of the website please click the Donate button above -

If you want to buy original copies of the Illustrated London News fill in the form above or go to Sleekburn Prints here.

......................................................................................

 

....................................................................

Christmas Editions across 3 Centuries

Historic Events and Archives on CD

1. A Robert Burns Centenary 1859 collection of high resolution images and articles on CD

2. Robert Burns Festival 1844 a collection of high resolution images and articles on CD

3. Ships of 1875 ...50 high resolution images and articles on CD

 Click here for a preview.

If you are really serious about Robert Burns then you must vist this site Seriousburns.com

There maybe an original Illustrated London News for sale via our partner Sleekburn prints - click here

1842 The year it began....	1843 Launch of SS Great Britain	1844 Emigrants weekly rations	1845 The Maori uprising against the British	1846 Opening of Lancaster to Carlisle Railway	1847 The Ardsley Main pit disaster	1848 USA gains Texas, California etc.	1849 Britain annexes The Punjab
1850 Alfred lord Tennyson becomes poet Laureate	1851 The Crystal Palace Great Exhibition opened in London	1852 The Transvaal, South Africa, gains right to manage it's own affairs	1853 Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory in Britain	1854 Britain and France declare war on Russia, and send forces to the Crimea	1855 David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls	1856 Florence Nightingale working in Scutari and the Crimean war ends	1857 The Leviathan or "Great Eastern" was being built by Brunel	1858 The Indian Mutiny is put down	1859 Robert Burns Centenary
1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th President of the United States	1861 Fort Sumter is captured and the American Civil War begins	1862 The New Harley Pit Disaster 206 men and boys killed	1863 The Metropolitan Railway opened London's first underground line	1864 The Sheffield flood disaster	1865 President Lincoln was assasinated and succeeded by Andrew Johnson	1866 Alfred Nobel starts making Dynamite	1867 Russia sells Alaska to the United States	1868 Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister. He resigns the same year and is succeeded by William Gladstone	1869 Suez Canal was opened by the Empress Eugénie of France
1870 opening of The Tower Subway under the Thames	1871 Stanley meets Livingstone in Africa	1872 Licensing Act 1872 establishes licenses for public houses and limits drinking hours.	1873 The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547.	1874 Disraeli becomes British Prime Minister	1875 Captain Matthew Webb is the first person to swim the English Channel	1876 Rutherford Hayes declared 19th United States President	1877 Wimbledon Tennis championship inaugurated	1878 Electric street lighting was introduced into London	1879 January 22/23 - British troops attacked and defeated by 20,000 Zulus at Isandhlwana
1880 The first test match between England v Australia at the Oval	1881 Total abolition of flogging in the British Army and Navy	1882 Chief Secretary of Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish was assassinated in Phoenix Park, Dublin	1883 The Volcano Krakatoa erupts with a big bang!	1884 cannibalism on the high seas	1885 The first performance of Gilbert and Sullivans The Mikado in London	1886 Gladstone forms new government and introduces new bill Home Rule for Ireland	1887 Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story was published	1888 Jack the Ripper murders five women in London	1889 There maybe an original for sale via our partner Sleekburn prints - click here The Eiffel Tower was attracting 20.000 people per day to the Worlds tallest building
1890 Britain ceded Heligoland to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar	1891 Construction of the Blackwall tunnel started	1892 January 14th - Death of Albert Victor The Duke of Clarence aged 27 - Anarchist bombs in paris	1893 Irish Home Rule Bill passed by Commons (later rejected by the Lords)- Manchester ship canal was completed	1894 China attacked by Japan	1895 Jameson raid into Transvaal, South Africa -	1896 Rontgen discovered X-RaysEarthquake in Japan kills 25,000	1897	1898	1899
1900 First flight by Count Zeppelin's airship	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905 The Russian battleship Potemkin was seized by crew members at Odessa	1906	1907	1908	1909
1910 First Hollywood film released; Griffith's In Old California	1911	1912	1913 Miss Emily Davison died after she threw herself under the Kings horse at the Derby	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
1920 Prohibition introduced in the USA (the eighteenth amendment)	1921	1922 Treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb first revealed by Howard Carter (he was backed by the Earl of Carnarvon)	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927 All Churches were losing congregations, divorces were rising dramatically and birth control was being practised on an increasing scale	1928	1929
1930 Amy Johnson completed her solo flight from England to Australia	1931 November 4th - Gandhi received by King George V on a visit to Britain	1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge opened - the worlds largest single-arch span	1933 Sir Malcolm Campbell passing the timing tower at 270 mph. Breaking the land speed record at Daytona	1934 The Queen Mary launched at Clydebank	1935 The agricutural heart of the USA is paralysed by dust storms	1936	1937	1938	1939
1940 The start of food rationing in the UK and the Thames froze over	1941	1942 Illustrated london News Centenary year	1943	1944 "D Day" 6th June	1945	1946	1947 Brought 14 foot snowdrifts and icebergs off the Norfolk coast. The sea froze at Margate.	1948	1949
1950 The Korean War began	1951	1952 Queen Elizabeth	1953 Coronation Year	1954	1955 Ruth Ellis, aged 28, became the last woman to be hanged in Britain after murdering her lover David Blakely	1956	1957	1958	1959
1960 Senator John Edward Kennedy won the US Presidential election	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
1970 Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both died from drug overdoses, aged 27	1971	1972	1973	1974 US President Nixon resigns in face of impeacment threat over Watergate, Gerald Ford succeeds him	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
1980 John Lennon was murdered outside his apartment in New York	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
1990 From O'Brien to Haut-Brion he history of one of the world's greatest clarets	1991 article by Anthony Holden about Princess Diana and Charles	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
2000	2001	2002 Golden Jubilee Year	2003	2004	2005

(this is going to take a little time to finish) Some of the years do not have any content yet, as I probably do not have any magazines for that year yet or I just haven't got around to it yet. 

I shall first concentrate on putting up some representative snippets from each year that has been published, then gradually fill in the detail

Nearly every year has some content.

I would appreciate it if you have any content or comment for any year please email me ( j.weedy at iln.org.uk)

:- please note... I have used an "at" instead of "@" trying to stop spammer bots harvesting my email address , so please make sure you type it as an email address into your email program for free inclusion.

Eventually all the years will be split down to Months and then Weeks (see 1909)

Finally, if you have any old magazines or bound volumes you want to unload please let me know.