From St James’s Gazette – Saturday 07 December 1901 The ’Cutest Thing in the Zoo.’ I had a chat the other afternoon with the keeper of my favourite creature at the Zoological Gardens — the King[…]
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Category: Common Record
1832 Fire at Cleish Church
From the Edinburgh Evening Courant – Saturday 17 March 1832 Fire. — On Sunday last, the parish church of Cleish, Kinross-shire, was accidentally set fire to by the stove-pipe communicating with one of the beams,[…]
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Peace! Peace! Peace!
So good they named it three times, ‘Peace! Peace! Peace!’ has been used as a headline as long as newspapers have existed. It is probably a translated quotation from the 128th poem of ‘Canzoniere’ by[…]
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Queen Victoria’s Return
On Tuesday, 20th September, 1842, the Liverpool Mail reported to safe return of Queen Victoria from Scotland along with several humorous articles related to the visit scavenged from other newspapers. We start with the straightforward[…]
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Piracy off the coast of Islay
The Scottish isle of Islay (pronounced eye-luh) is a peaceful place, hardly one associated with piracy, but in the late eighteenth Century, things were very different. From the Caledonian Mercury – Saturday 28 October 1780[…]
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Victoria Leaves the Fair City
From the Northern Warder and General Advertiser for the Counties of Fife, Perth and Forfar – Tuesday 13 September 1842 WEDNESDAY [7 SEPTEMBER]. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY FOR THE HIGHLANDS. Although it was well known[…]
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Queen Victoria’s visit to Perth in 1842
From the Perthshire Advertiser – Thursday 08 September 1842 THE QUEEN’S WELCOME TO PERTHSHIRE. Daughter of kings, with graceful mien, Thou when Earth wears loveliest green, And forest leaves are glittering sheen. All gaily clad, to greet a[…]
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Carl Hentschel, engraver
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Fireworks Explosion – Marvellous Escape
From the Fife Herald – Thursday 08 September 1842. St Andrews. – Explosion – Marvellous Escape.—Mr Gyngell, the celebrated constructor of fire works, who has entertained the folks here on several occasions, having received an[…]
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Queen Victoria visits Leith
From Leaves from the Journal of our Lives in the Highlands, 1848-61, Edinburgh, 1868 Saturday 3rd September. The view of Edinburgh from the road before you enter Leith is quite enchanting; it is, as Albert said,[…]
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Apple Pie Order
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Olympic Lessons
From the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail – Saturday 15 August 1936. OLYMPIC LESSONS. The Olympic Games have taught the world several lessons. One lesson is that the limits of athletic achievement are ever expanding. Several[…]
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