Miscellaneous British history
Prime ministers - more
British history timelines, another, at wikipedia - timeline
Stamford Raffles
Old Sarum - classic rotten borough (ended by the reform act of 1832)
Fire destroys parliament (1834)
Indian mutiny (1857) - more - more
Florence Nightingale
London Docks
The Great Stink (London 1858) - more
Report from the Boer War
Lord Curzon - at banglapedia - partition of Bengal (1905)
An incident in the campaign for women's suffrage (1909)
The General Strike at wikipedia - (1926)
Blackshirts confronted in the East End (1936)
Beveridge Report (1942)
Suez Crisis - 1956 - Suez and Hungary
