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      First edition 2020

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       Acknowledgements

      Cover image © MSSA / Shutterstock

      Our thanks and acknowledgements go to Lily Cox, Joanne Lovey and Robin Ashton at News Syndication and, in particular, at The Times, Ian Brunskill and, at HarperCollins, Jethro Lennox, Lauren Murray, Kevin Robbins, Louise Robb and Lauren Reid.

      We’d also like to thank Alan Copps for all his help and expertise.

      eBook Edition © October 2020

      ISBN 9780008419455

      Version 2020-09-18

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Introduction

       Georgian Times

       The Fall of the Bastille

       The Battle of Trafalgar

       The Abolition of Slavery

       The Assassination of Spencer Perceval

       The Battle of Waterloo

       Peterloo

       An Early Railway Accident

       The Age of Victoria

       The Coronation of Queen Victoria

       The Treaty of Waitangi

       Revolution in Vienna

       The Great Exhibition

       The Charge of the Light Brigade

       The Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny

       Big Ben Nears Completion

       The Death of Prince Albert

       The Underground Railway

       Gettysburg

       The Road Hill House Murder

       The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

       The Opening of the Suez Canal

       The First Test Cricket Series

       The Relief of Khartoum

       The Murder of Mary Jane Kelly

       The Dedication of the Eiffel Tower

       The Trials of Oscar Wilde

       The Diamond Jubilee

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