Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• Oil prices quadruple because of world shortage
• US President Nixon resigns in face of impeacment threat over Watergate, Gerald Ford succeeds him
• Labour minority government elected in the UK, Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister
• Labour wins overall majority in second election
• UK inflation rises to 20%
• Covent Garden Market moves to Nine Elms
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from Russia

January

• 500 years of printing
• Controlling pornography
• Housemans Shropshire

February

• Down among the dolphins
• Night with the fire brigade
• Impressionism and the English

March

• What peace means in Vietnam
• Pulling down Pimlico
• Rivers of Mars
• The lonely Laureate
• National Lifeboats

April

• Chay Blyth`s at the start of the round-the -world Yacht race
• Spring Motoring Report
• Houdini : The great escaper
• The Royal Tour
• Goodbye to Aldershot

May

• The other side of Kew
• Anthropology Up To date
• Sights of London - Second Series
• Ups and Downs of VTOL
• Animals Seventh Sense

August

• Beside the seaside at Bounemouth
• Man- powered flight
• Polytecnic in the docks
• The idol of Tejia
• Wimbledon

September

• Churchill Centenary Issue Front Cover - Churchill
• Inside - The link with Blenheim
• The Man and his letters
• Treasures of the Medici
• The Victorian Seaside
• The Turner Mystery
  

October

• Champion Brass
• The History of Inflation
• Emergence of the horse

December

• An article 'Jewelry is as precious as ever' with prices from the big auction houses
• Travel articles, sporting art, page on 'stolen art'.
• Motor racing article and pictures 'Making of a Racing Champion' - Jackie Stewart, James Hunt, Tom Pryce & Mike Hailwood.
• Article and pictures on 'Wales's Puffing Billies' - narrow gauge railways.
• David Wynne Sculpture article and picture.
• Asprey's and Garrard full page colour jewelry adverts

Xmas Number

114 pages

• Contents page:
• An Experience of Christmas by the Dean of St. Paul's
• Pastimes and Pieties by James Holyroyd
• A Family Circus by Richard Cooke
  The Magical Mr. Dee by A. W. Slater
  New Sculptures for Exeter Cathedral
  London's Livery Companies by Jennifer Lang
  Underground: short story by J. B. Priestley
  The Hidden Language of Art by James Hall
  Christmas Bazaar 1913
  A Return to King Solomon's Mines by Julian Critchley
  Reviving an Ancient Tradition by Helen Gibson
  Winter Playground (St. Moritz)
  Brueghel's Four Elements
  Beatrix Potter's Magic World by Ursula Robertshaw
  Illustrating the 18th Century by Robert Hendon
  Ship's Figureheads by Ursula Robertshaw
  American Pieced Quilts by Robert Melville
  The Legend of Clicquot by Peta Fordham
  A Taste for All Times by Maggie Black
  Christmas Shopping by Robin McDouall
  Picture QUiz
  Christmas 100 Years Ago
  Lost Palaces by E. J. Priestley
  Fair is Fair: Children's Story by Michael Foreman
  Christmas Questions & Answers

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