
# File: index 70-72.txt (12)
# Scanned/edited by Andrew Davison, March 2025, ad@coe.psu.ac.th
# Issue: 545 1972-06-24, p.46, 47
# Issue: 546 1972-07-01, p.46, 47
# Issue: 547 1972-07-08, p.46, 47
# Issue: 548 1972-07-15, p.46, 47
# Issue: 549 1972-07-22, p.46, 47
# Period: June 1970 To Feb 1972

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# A

Aaron's Rod: 24 Apr 1971
Abadan, Persia: 21 Aug 1971
Abbey of Craus: 23 Jan 1971
Abbeydale, forging works: 2 Jan 1971
Aberdeen: 10 Apr, 3 July 1971
Abolition of Slavery: 22 May 1971
Aborigines: 9 Oct, 15 May, 10 Apr 1971
Abraham: 8 May 1971; 5 Feb 1972
Abraham, Height of: 10 July 1971
Abul Simbel Temples: 14 Aug 1971
Abyssinia. - Prester John: 15 May 1971
Acheson, Dean USA Sec. of State: 2 Jan 1971
Achilles: 12 Feb 1972; 13 June 1970
Actium, battle. of: 28 Aug 1971; 29 Jan 1972
A.D. 2001 begins: 21 Aug 1971
A.D. 2001 Games: 4 Sep 1971
A.D. 2001 Travel: 28 Aug 1971
Adam, Robert: 26 June 1971
Adams, gold-diggers: 21 Nov 1970
Ader, Clement: 10 Apr 1971
Adventure: 10 Oct 1970
Advertising: 15 Jan 1972
Aegir: 4 July 1970
Aerocars: 11 Dec 1971
Aerophon instruments: 20 Mar 1971
Aeroplane chutes: 25 July 1970
Aeroplanes: 27 June 1970
Aeroplane F-15; 13 June 1970
Aeroplanes (Gloster Gladiator): 18 July 1970
Aeroplanes, supersonic: 15 Aug 1970
Aerotrain of America: 25 Dec 1971
Afghanistan: 18 Sep 1971
Africa (diamonds): 1 Aug 1970
Africa - history: 10 Apr 1971
Africa, North: 17 Apr 1971
Africa, South: 24 Oct 1970
African Bushmen: 26 Sep 1970
Agate: 1 Jan 1972
Agello, Francesco: 8 May 1971
Agincourt, battle of: 31 July, 20 Nov 1971
Aircraft (American): 15 Aug 1970
Aircraft (wake turbulence): 28 Nov 1970
Air cushions on aircraft: 22 Jan 1971
Air disaster 1918: 20 Mar 1971
Airline pilots: 10 Oct 1970
Air mail service: 8 May 1971
Air pollution: 11 Sep 1971
Airport: 27 June 1970
Airport vehicles: 4 July 1970
Air-sea rescue service: 17 Apr 1971
Airships: 6 June 1970; 1 May, 10 Apr, 30 Jan 1971
Airships R1000: 24 July 1971
Airships R100 101: 29 May 1971
Airships R101: 5 Feb 1972
Air Traffic Control: 8 Aug 1970
Alamein WWII: 16 Jan 1971
Alamein, El: 31 July 1971
Alamo: 20 Feb, 26 June 1971; 29 Jan 1972
Alanbrooke, Lord: 4 Dec 1971
Alaska: 26 Dec 1970; 27 Mar 1971
Alaska, Road to: 26 Sep 1970
Albert Hall: 27 June 1970
Albert Nyanza Lake: 13 Mar 1971
Albert, Prince: 12 June 1971
Alcock: 4 Sep 1971
Alcock and Brown: 8 May 1971
Alcohol Prohibition US.: 9 Jan 1971
Alcott, Louisa M.: 6 Mar 1971
Alfa Romeos: 12 June 1971
Alfred the Great: 6 Mar, 27 Nov 1971
Alfred, King: 2 Jan 1971
Alexander II: 18 Sep 1971
Alexander the Great: 13 Nov 1971
Alexandria: 13 Nov 1971
Alkemade, Sergeant: 13 Feb 1971
Allenby, General: 28 Aug 1971
Alley, Bill: 18 Sep 1971
Alligator truck: 4 Dec 1971
Alligators: 13 Mar 1971
Algeria - French invasion: 1 Jan 1972
Algeria - French: 24 Apr 1971
Siesta T independence: 1 May
Algiers - Darlan: 2 Jan 1971
Alma, battle of: 29 May, 18 Sep 1971
Alps: 13 Mar 1971
Alston, market town: 27 Mar 1971
Aluminium: 1 Aug 1970
Amazon: 6 June, 24 Oct 1970
Ambassadors: 4 Sep 1971
Ambulance men: 14 Nov 1970
Amebelodon (prehistoric): 20 June 1970
Amenhotep, Pharoah: 8 Jan 1972
America: 20 June 1970
America Civil Rights: 24 July 1971
American Civil War: 17 July, 26 June, 3 Apr, 6 Mar, 10 Apr, 31 July 1971
American invasion of Mexico: 5 Feb 1972
American Railroads: 8 May, 24 Apr 1971 
American War of Independence: 9 Jan, 14 Aug, 23 Jan 1971
American West: 28 Mar, 24 Apr, 27 Mar 1971
Amman, Jordan: 23 Jan 1971
Amon, Chris: 6 Feb 1971
Amundsen: 12 Sep 1970; 16 Jan, 1 May 1971
Ancient Greek coins: 26 June 1971
Anesthetics: 12 Feb 1972; 4 Sep 1971
Anatolia, Turkey: 28 Aug 1971
Andance, France: 16 Jan 1971
Anderson, Paul: 5 June 1971
Andersen, Hans Christian: 21 Nov 1970. 29 Jan 1972
Andes mountains: 3 Apr 1971
Andes rail disaster: 20 Mar 1971
Angel of Mons: 19 Dec 1970
Angel fish: 9 Jan 1971. 13 Feb 1971
Angler, deep-sea: 17 July 1971
Anglo-Saxons: 27 Nov 1971
Animals, Africa: 26, 19 June 1971
Animals evolution: 17, 24, 31 July, 7 Aug 1971
Animal entertainers: 5 Sep 1970
Anson, General: 9 Jan 1971
Antarctic: 16 Jan 1971; 26 Dec 1970
Anteater: 13 Feb 1971
Anteater (Spiny): 3 Apr 1971
Anti-Corn Law League: 28 Aug 1971
Antiseptics: 10 Oct 1970
Ants: 28 Nov 1970; 17 July 1971
Ants' nests: 7 Aug 1971
Ants, Soldier: 3 July 1971
Antoinette, Marie: 9 Jan 1971
Ant, Lion Long-necked: 6 Mar 1971
Apache Indians: 16 Jan 1971; 10 Apr 1970
Aphis: 10 Apr 1971
Apollo Aircraft: 6 June 1970
Apollo disaster: 23 Jan 1971
Apollo Project: 19 June 1971. (8) 18 Dec 1971. (10) 15 May 1971. (11) 22 Jan 1972. 15 Jan 1972. (13) 29 Aug 1970. 5 Sep 1970. (14) 2 Jan 1971. (15) 6 Nov 1971
April Fool Day: 12 June 1971
Aquitaine: 26 June 1971
Aquitaine 100 Years War: 14 Aug 1971
Arabian Desert: 29 May 1971
Arabian invasion of Persia: 23 Oct 1971
Arabs: 9 Oct 1971. 17 Apr 1971
Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem: 25 Dec 1971
Aragon, Catherine of: 15 May 1971
Archer Fish: 6 Mar 1971
Archery: 13 Mar 1971
Arctic: 5 Sep 1970
Arctic expedition: 19 Sep 1970
Arctic Fern: 29 May 1971
Aardvark: 3 Oct 1970
Ariadne: 17 Apr 1971
Argentina: 1 Aug, 25 July 1970
Ark of the Lord: 12 Feb 1972
Arkle - racehorse: 27 Nov 1971
Arkwright, Richard: 31 July 1971
Arlington Mill: 3 Apr 1971
Armada, Spanish: 17 July, 13 Mar 1971; 19 Feb 1972
Armstrong, Henry - Boxer: 10 July 1971
Armstrong, Sir William: 2 Jan 1971
Arne, Thomas A.: 6 Mar 1971
Art, computer: 14 Nov 1970
Arthur, King: 1 Jan 1972; 1 May 1971
Arthur, Port: 6 Feb 1971
Arum, Wild: 24 Apr 1971
Ascari, Alberto: 16 Jan 1971
The Ashes: 1 Aug 1970
Assaye, battle of: 18 Sep 1971
Ascot Races: 7 Aug 1971
Ashdown Forest, battle of: 2 Jan 1971
Ashanti people: 27 Mar 1971
Assassination: 2 Jan 1971
Asscher, Joseph: 3 July 1971
Assurbanipal, King: 22 Jan 1972
Assurnasirpall II: 22 Jan 1972
Assyrians: 22 Jan 1972
Aston Martin: 20 Nov 1971
Astronauts: 2 Jan 1971
Astronomy - Galileo: 2 Jan 1971
Aswan Dam: 14 Aug 1971
Atbara, battle of: 3 Apr 1971
Athletes: 2 Jan 1971
Athletics: 10 Oct, 7 Nov, 12 Dec, 21 Nov, 31 Oct, 19 Dec, 14 Nov, 28 Nov 1970
Atlantic flight: 8 May 1971
Atlantic racing: 31 Oct 1970
Atomic energy station: 23 Jan 1971
Atomic Power: 29 Jan 1972
Atoms: 14 Aug 1971; 22 Jan 1972
Atoms, discovery of: 17 July 1971
Atter, John A.: 23 Jan 1971
Aucan Indians: 22 May 1971
Augustus Caesar: 18 Sep 1971
Augustus, Emperor: 31 July 1971
Augustus, Ernest: 9 Oct 1971
Aurora: 11 Sep 1971
Austen, Jane: 17 Oct 1970
Austin, armoured car: 6 Nov 1971
Austin, Herbert: 23 Oct 1971
Australia: 9 Oct 1971. 17 Apr 1971. 1 Aug 1970
Australia, discovery of: 16 Jan 1971
Australia Prehistoric: 5 June 1971
Australia Wool: 11 Sep 1971
Australian gold-diggers: 7 Nov 1970
Australian outback: 21 Aug 1971
Austria, WWII: 24 July 1971
Autobahn motorway: 18 Sep 1971
Autogiro: 12 June 1971
Automobile Club of France: 16 Oct 1971
Aviation: 10 Apr, 3 Apr 1971
Aviation Civil: 1 May 1971
Aviation disasters: begins 26 June 1971
Aviation. early: 19 Dec 1970
Aviation, future planes: 21 Aug 1971
Avignon, France: 30 Jan 1971
Aye-Aye: 7 Aug 1971
Aylward, Gladys: 15 Jan 1972
Aztec Empire, 20 Nov 1971

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# B

Baalsrud, Jan: 18 Dec 1971
Babel, Tower of: 29 Jan 1972
Babylonians: 15 Jan 1972 to 29 Jan 1972
Baca, Elfegro: 3 July 1971
Bach: 26 Sep 1970
Bach, Johann Sebastian: 20 Mar 1971
Bacteria: 19 Feb 1972
Baden-Powell, A; 23 Jan 1971
Bader, Douglas: 15 May 1971
Badges, No 1: 27 Feb 1971

Badges and Decorations:$
  City of London: 22 Jan 1972
  Coldstream Guards: 15 Jan 1972
  County of London: 22 Jan 1972
  Dorset Regime: 7 Feb 1971
  Duke of Wellington: 13 Mar 1971
  King's Own: 12 Feb 1972
  Lancashire Fusiliers: 27 Mar 1971
  Malta GC: 8 Jan 1972
  Manchester Regiment: 20 Mar 1971
  Merchant Navy: 29 Jan 1972
  Middlesex Regt: 5 Feb 1972
  Military Police: 15 May 1971
  Royal Berkshire: 25 Dec 1971
  Royal Engineers: 1 May 1971
  Royal Military Academy: 24 Apr 1971
  Royal National Life-Boat: 1 Jan 1972
  Scouts: 10 Apr 1971
  Somerset Light Infantry: 6 Mar 1971
  Souvenir Badges: 8 Jan 1972
  Surrey Police: 5 Apr 1971
  United Nations: 8 May 1971
  Victoria Cross: 22 May 1971
Badgers: 7 Aug 1971, 20 Mar 1971
Badges of the Brave: begins 25 Dec 1971
Baird, John Logie: 22 May, 23 Jan 1971
Baker, Dr. Dorsey: 24 Apr 1971
Baker, Samuel White: 13 Mar, 19 June 1971
Balaclava, Crimea: 2 Jan, 5 June, 15 May 1971
Balboa, Vasco Nuenz de: 18 Sep 1971
Ball games: 29 Aug 1970
Ball, John: 9 Jan 1971
Ballet, 6 June 1970
Ballet, Marguerite & Armaund: 10 July 1971
Balloon flights: 27 Nov 1971
Balloonist, William R. Berry: 17 July 1971
Balloons: 10 Apr 1971
Balmoral Castle: 12 June 1971; 22 Jan 1972
Baltic Campaign: 7 Nov 1970
Bananas: 18 Sep 1971
Banani tribe, 13 Mar 1971
Bandits: 4 July 1970; 29 May 1971
Bank of England: 13 Nov 1971
Bank Holidays: 31 July 1971
Banks security: 13 Nov 1971
Baracca, Francesco: 24 Apr 1971
Barbarian chiefs of Britain: 10 July 1971
Barbary Pirates: 17, 24 Apr 1971
Bardai, Sahara: 3 Apr 1971
Barnard Castle: 20 July 1970
Barnard, Sir Henry: 9 Jan 1971
Barnado, Dr Thomas: 16 Jan 1971
Barry, Dr James: 21 Nov 1970
Basketball: 14 Aug 1971
Basket-making: 27 Feb 1971
Bassoon: 28 Nov 1970
Bastille, prison: 15 May 1971
Bastille, storming of: 10 July 1971; 15 Jan 1972
Bat, Bechstein's: 20 Feb 1971
Bath (City of): 31 Oct 1970; 12 Dec 1970
Baths: 24 Oct 1970
Batista, Cuba: 2 Jan 1971
Battle of Britain: 7 Aug 1971; 27 Mar 1971
Battleship (Jervis Bay): 11 July 1970
Bayeux Tapestry: 16 Oct 1971; 8 Jan 1972
B.E.A.: 5 June 1971
Bear: 2 Jan 1971
Bear, grizzly: 3 Apr 1971
Beatles, The: 19 June 1971
Becket, Thomas: 20 Mar, 17 July, 13 Nov 1971
Becquerel: 7 Aug 1971
Bede, Jim: 8 Jan 1972
Bedford, Duke of: 7 Aug 1971
Bedouin tribe: 9 Oct 1971
Bee, cuckoo: 26 June 1971
Bee, solitary: 29 May 1971
Bee Eater: 1 Aug 1970
Beecham, Sir Thomas: 24 Apr 1971
Beeswax: 12 Dec 1970
Beethoven, 26 Sep,1970
Beetle, Elm Park: 8 May 1971
Beetle, Ips Bark: 8 May 1971
Beetle, Oil: 10 Apr, 29 May 1971
Beetle, Rhinoceros. 13 Mar 1971
Beetle, stag: 13 Feb 1971
Beetles: 26 Dec 1970; 3 July 1971
Belaney, Archie: 4 Sep 1971
Bell, Alexander Graham: 6 Mar 1971; 8 Jan 1972
Bettingham, Bridge: 1971
Ben Nevis: 8 May 1971
Bennett, Gordon: 16 Oct 1971
Bentley racing car: 20 Nov 1971
Beowulf, begins: ?? 1970
Berlin: 15 Jan 1972
Berlin, Irving: 8 May 1971
Berlin Wall: 7 Aug 1971
Bertillon, Alphonse: 19 Feb 1972
Bertolotti, Gasparo di: 31 July 1971
Bessemer, Henry: 21 Aug 1971
Bessemer Process: 21 Aug 1971
Bethlehem Steel Corp: 19 June 1971
Beurling 'Screwball': 1971
Bevan, Aneurin: 30 Jan 1971
Biafran War: 19 June 1971
Bibury, Gloucestershire: 3 Apr 1971
Big Horn Battle: 27 Feb 1971
Biggles: 26 Dec 1970
Billy the Kid: 17 Oct 1970
Birds: 20 Feb 1971
Birds (British): 27 June 1970
Bird Quiz: 11 July 1970
Bird-watching: 4 Dec 1971
Biro, George: 26 Feb 1972
Bismarck, Prince Otto von: 31 Oct 1971
Bitterling: 26 Dec 1970
Blancandrin: 31 July 1971
Blackbirds: 19 Feb 1972
Blackbird: 20 Feb 1971
Black Death: 9 Jan 1971; 10 Feb 1972
Black Death: 21 Nov 1970 to 5 Dec 1970
Black Mamba: 5 June 1971
Blackmore, R.D.: 31 Oct 1970
Blacknaped Oriole: 26 Dec 1970
The Black Pirate begins: 25 Sep 1971
Black Prince: 12 June, 10 July, 16 Oct 1971
Blake, William: 13 Feb 1971
Blaydon Races: 17 Apr 1971
Blenheim, battle of: 7 Aug 1971
Blenheim Palace: 18 July 1970
Bleriot, Louis, channel flight: 24 July 1971
Bleriot, Louis: 19 Dec 1970; 17, 24 Apr 1971
Bligh, captain: 24 Apr, 4 Sep, 20 Mar 1971
Blind - Braille: 20 Nov 1971
Blondin, Charles: 24 July 1971
Blood circulation: 27 Mar 1971
Blood, Colonel Thomas: 8, 22 May 1971
Blood, Lt.: 4 July 1970
Bloodhound Missile 1971
Blowpipe: 25 July 1970
Bluebird: 27 Nov 1971
Blue Chip: 3 Apr 1971
Blue Eagles: 31 July 1971
Blue Flame: 27 Nov 1971
Blue Hare: 20 Feb 1971
Blue Riband: 31 Oct 1970
Blyth, Chay: 13 Feb 1971
B.O.A.C.: 5 June 1971
Boadicea, Queen: 9 Oct 1971
Boats: 18 July, 6 June 1970
Boat Race 1951: 4 Sep 1971
Boat Race, University: 5 June 1971
Bock, John: 17 Apr 1971
Boer War: 6 Nov, 27 Feb 1971
Boer War - Mafeking: 15 May 1971
Boer War - Churchill as journalist: 11 Sep 1971
Boer War - reporting: 11 Sep 1971
Bohemia - Wencelas: 25 Dec 1971
Boleyn, Anne: 15 May, 24 Apr, 2 Oct 1971
Bolingbroke, Henry: 15 May, 27 Mar 1971
Bolingbroke (Henry IV): 24 July 1971
Bolivia: 20 June 1970
Bolsheviks: 25 July 1970
Bomb, atomic test: 10 July 1971
Bomb disposal: 15 Aug 1970
Bombay: 25 Sep 1971
Bomber, underwater: 27 Feb 1971
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: 9 Jan 1971
Bong, Major Richard: 22 May, 27 Feb 1971
Bonnie Prince Charlie: 8 Jan 1972
Book of Kells: 5 Sep 1970
Boomerangs: 27 Mar 1971
Booth, Catherine: 15 Jan 1972
Booth, Hubert: 19 Feb 1972
Booth, John Wilkes: 19 Dec 1970
Booth, General William: 14 Aug 1971.13 Feb 1971
Booth, Sir William 1972
Borden, Lizzie crime: 30 Oct 1971
Borgia, Cesare: 14 Aug 1971
Borgia Family: 14 Aug 1971
Borgia, Lucrezia: 19 June, 14 Aug 1971
Bormann, Martin: 17 July 1971
Borrow, George: 16 Jan 1971
Boston, Great Fire: 22 Jan 1972
Boston, Massacre: 27 Feb 1971
Bosworth, battle of: 31 July, 2 Oct 1971
Botticelli, Sandro: 15 May 1971
Bottle-kicking: 25 Aug 1971
Boulton, Matthew: 25 Dec 1971
Bow Street Runners: 12 Feb 1972
Bowers: 11 Jan 1972
Bowling: 27 Mar 1971
Boxer Rising: 26 Feb 1972; 10 July 1971
Boxing: 15, 22, 29 Aug, 5, 12 Sep 1970
Boxing: 27 Mar 1971
Boxing (heavyweight): 17 Oct 1970
Boyle. Robert: 3 July 1971
Brabham, Jack: 25 July 1970
Braemer Castle: 5 June 1971
Braille, Louis: 20 Nov 1971
Brandt, Willy: 6 Feb 1971
Brant, Joseph: 9 Jan 1971
Brass rubbings: 16 Oct, 18 Sep 1971
Bravest of the Brave begins: 26 Feb 1972
Brazil: 8 Jan 1972; 10 Oct 1970
Brebeul, Jeande: 12 Dec 1970
Bretigny, Treaty of: 17 July 1971
Bridges - Brunel: 25 Sep 1971
Bridgwater Canal: 13 Nov 1971
Briggs, Barry - speedway: 7 Aug 1971
Brighton: 13 June 1970
Brighton veteran car race: 26 Dec 1970
Brightwell, Robbie: 31 July 1971
Brindley, James: 13 Nov 1971
Britain, battle of: 29 May 1971: 7 Aug 1971
Britain - continental Islands: 8 Jan 1972
Britain - Danish invasion: 6 Mar, 27 Nov 1971
Britain, Festival of: 1 May 1971
Britain - invaders of: 27 Feb 1971
Britain - Norman invasion: 16 Oct 1971
Britain - Roman invasion: 9 Oct, 21 Aug 1971
Britain's 'Specials': 29 May 1971
Britain, Vikings: 25 Sep 1971
The British Abroad begins: 22 May 1971
British Defence: 23 Oct 1971
British Empire: 2 Jan 1971
British Empire, India: 9, 16, 30 Jan, 6, 13, 20, 27 Feb 1971
British Government: 6 Nov 1971
British Justice: 9 Oct 1971
British Red Cross begins: 24 Apr 1971
British Way of Life begins: 25 Sep 1971
Britten, John: 2 Oct 1971
Brooks, Tony: 20 Mar 1971
Brown, John: 22 May 1971
Brown, John - abolitionist: 22 May 1971
Brontes: 29 Aug 1970
Bruce, Robert: 5 June, 6 Feb, 18 Dec 1971
Bruckner, Anton: 19 Dec 1970
Brummell, Beau: 12 June 1971
Brumowski, Godwin: 24 Apr 1971
Brunel, Isambard: 25 Sep 1971
Brunelleschi: 28 Aug 1971
Bubonic Plague: 10 Feb 1972
Buccaneers: 1 May 1971
Buchenwald: 9 Jan 1971
Bucher, Commander (Peublo): 11 Sep 1971
Buckingham Palace: 15 Jan 1972
Buenos Aires: 18 July 1970
Buffalo: 30 Jan 1971
Buffalo Bill: 20 Mar, 20 Feb 1971
Buildings of the future: 27 Nov 1971
Bulb, light: 16 Jan 1971
Bull, Chief Sitting: 27 Feb, 9 Jan 1971
Bullfighting: 9 Jan 1971
Bullfights France: 27 Mar 1971
Bunsen, R.W.: 27 Mar 1971
Bunyan, John: 22 Aug 1970; 23 Jan, 13 Feb 1971
Burghley, Lord: 31 July 1971
Burgundy, France: 16 Jan 1971
Burke and Hare: 26 June 1971
Burton, Sir Richard: 8 Jan 1972
Busby, Matt: 26 June 1971
Bus drivers: 7 Nov 1970
Bus, treadmill: 24 Apr 1971
Buses: 6 Nov 1971
Buses - first: 22 May 1971
Buses, first London: 3 July 1971
Bus men: 20 Mar 1971
Bush fires: 28 Nov 1970
Bushmen (Africa): 26 Sep 1970
Bushrangers, Australia: 8 May 1971
Butcher: 8 May 1971
Butter - New Zealand: 28 Aug 1971
Butterfly - Camberwell: 13 Feb 1971
Butterfly, large blue: 20 Mar, 15 May 1971
Butterfly - rarest: 16 Jan 1971
Bicycle, floating: 27 Feb 1971
Bicycles - first: 21 Aug 1971
Byng, John: 13 Mar 1971
Byrd, Lt. Commander Richard: 8 May 1971

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# C

Cable, transatlantic: 10 Oct 1970
Cadbury Hill: 1 May 1971
Caedmon: 12 June 1971
Caernarvon Castle: 5 Feb 1972
Caesar, Julius: 28 Nov 1970; 10 July, 13 Mar, 9 Oct 1971
Cahuilla Indians: 10 Apr 1971
Cairo: 2 Jan, 14 Aug 1971
Calcutta: 25 Sep 1971
Calder Hall, Cumberland: 17 July, 22 Jan 1971
Caldwell, Clive: 13 Nov 1971
California 1542: 8 May 1971
California - Gold: 23 Jan 1971
Californian Gold Rush: 3 Oct 1970; 18 Dec 1971
Calvin, John: 22 May 1971
Campbell, Donald: 27 Nov 1971
Campbell, Ed: 22 Jan 1972
Campbell Sir Malcolm: 27 Nov 1971
Camera: 8 Aug 1970; 3 Apr 1971
Cameron Clan: 4, Dec 1971
Canaan: 5, 12 Feb 1972
Canada: 26 July 1970, 23 Oct 1971
Canada - Gold Rush: 5 June 1971
Canada - Rocky Mountains: 6 Mar 1971
Canada - Ontario: 2 Jan 1971
Canals: 13 Nov 1971
Canal, Erie: 26 Sep 1970
Candles: 5 Dec 1970
Canning, George: 6 Feb 1971
Cannon: 4 July 1970
Canterbury Cathedral - Becket: 17 July 1971
Canute, King: 13 Mar 1971
Capablanca: 13 Feb 1971
Capercaille: 11 July 1970
Capitol: 29 May 1971
Capone, Al: 26 Feb 1972; 13 Feb, 15 May 1971
Caractarus: 29 Aug 1970
Cardigan, Lord: 15 May 1971
Caribbean: 27 Nov 1971
Carlisle: 26 June 1971
Carmague - animals: 27 Mar 1971
Camargue, France: 30 June, 6 Feb 1971
Camargue, horses of: 27 Mar 1971
Carmine Bee-Eater: 26 Dec 1970
Carnations: 19 Dec 1970
Carnegie, Andrew: 7 Aug 1971
Caroline, Queen: 20 Nov 1971
Carr, Jesse: 10 Apr 1971
Cars: 31 Oct, 21, 28 Nov, 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec 1970
Car for the disabled: 24 July 1971
Cars - electric: 2 Jan 1971, 16 Oct 1971
Cars in the future: 18 Dec 1971
Cars - Lotus Plus 2: 18 Dec 1971
Cars - mass produced: 13 Nov 1971
Cars, M.G. Sports: 1971
Car park attendant: 3 Apr 1971
Cars, safety: 15 Jan 1972
Cars, steam: 17 Apr 1971, 6, Feb 1971
Cars, Top Twenty: 18 Dec 1971
Cars - Windmill Chariot: 17 Apr 1971
Car tyres: 28 Aug 1971
Caruso, Enrico: 31 July 1971
Cassette tape recorders: 19 June 1971
Cassettes: 24 Apr 1971
Cassidy, Butch: 27 Mar 1971
Castillon, battle of: 14 Aug 1971
Castle Howard: 4 July 1970
Castle Daulatabad: 13 June 1970
Castle Trifels: 6 June 1970
Castro, Fidel: 8 Aug 1970; 2 Jan, 13 Feb, 12 June 1971
Caterpillars, Moth 1971
Caterpillars: 3 Apr 1971
Catherine of Aragon: 8 Jan 1972
Catherine II: 18 Sep 1971
Cat, wild: 13 Feb 1971
Cats, Manx: 18 Dec 1971
Cattle, Wild White: 20 Mar 1971
Caux, de Simon: 7 Aug 1971
Cavendish, Henry: 24 July 1971
Cawnpore, India: 16 Jan 1971
Cement: 19 Sep 1970
Central heating: 7 Nov 1970
Centrifugal Force: 26 June 1971
Cervantes, Miguel: 17 Apr 1971
Cervantes: 25 Dec 1971
Ceylonese primitives: 19 Sep 1970
Chairs: 13 Mar 1971
Chamberlain, Neville: 29 May 1971
Champlain, de Samuel: 9 Jan 1971
Channel crossing: 15 May 1971
Channel Islands: 8 Jan 1972
Chaplin, Charles: 10 Apr, 23 Jan, 20 Nov 1971
Charge of Light Brigade: 15 May 1971
Charity organisations, War on Want: 14 Aug 1971
Charlemagne: 27 Mar, 17 July, 10 July, 16 Jan, 21 Aug, 7 Aug 1971
Charles I: 2 Jan, 9 Jan, 27 June 1970
Charles I execution: 23 Jan 1971
Charles II; 22 May, 24 July, 25 Dec, 11 Sep 1971; 1 Jan 1972
Charles V: 4 Sep 1971
Charles V of France: 17 July 1971
Charles VI of France: 24 July 1971
Charles VI: 23 Oct 1971
Charles VIII: 7 Aug 1971
Charles IX: 6 Nov 1971
Charles, the Dauphin: 7 Aug 1971
Charleton, General: 16 Jan 1971
Carthage: 10 Apr 1971
Carthage begins: 3 Apr 1971
Chavante tribe: 10 Oct 1970
Cheetah: 5 June 1971
Cheiro, Count: 29 Jan 1972
Chemicals: 24 Oct 1970
Cherokee Indians: 6 Feb 1971
Cheshire, Group Captain: 23 Jan 1971
Chess - Dresden set: 19 Feb 1972
Chess - invention of: 2 Oct 1971
Chester: 9 Jan 1971
Cheyenne Indians: 30 Jan 1971
Chichester, Francis: 19 June 1971
Chief Red Cloud: 17 Apr 1971
Chile: 11 July 1970
Chimney Sweep: 5 Feb 1972
China: 11 July 1970
China, Great Wall of: 23 Jan 1971
China - Mongol invasion: 27 Nov 1971
Chinese silk: 17 Oct 1970
Chinese-Tibetan frontier: 5 June 1971
Chippendale furniture: 3 July 1971
Chippendale, Thomas: 3 July 1971
Chitty-Chitty-bang-bang: 11 Dec 1971
Chivalry. Age of No. 1; 27 Mar 1971
Chlorine: 3 Oct 1970
Chloroform - Simpson: 4 Sep 1971
Chollerford bridge: 3 Apr 1971
Chopin: 26 Sep 1970
Christmas in 2001: 25 Dec 1971
How They Spent Christmas: 25 Dec 1971
Christmas Rose: 2 Jan 1971
Christmas shopping: 26 Dec 1970
Christmas Shopping 19th century: 25 Dec 1971
Christian, Fletcher: 4 Sep 1971
Chronometers: 10 July 1971
Chrysanthemums: 7 Nov 1970
Churchill, John: 12 June 1971
Churchill, Randolph: 21 Aug 1971
Churchill, Winston: 21 Aug, 18 Dec, 30 Jan, 2 Jan 1971
Churchill, Winston as journalist: 11 Sep 1971
Churchill in Boer War: 11 Dec 1971
Churchills: 21 Aug 1971
Cibola, Seven Cities of: 14 Nov 1970
Cinema - silent comedies: 23 Jan 1971
Cinerama: 3 Apr 1971, 28 Nov 1970
Cinque Ports: 29 Jan 1972
Circus: 2 Jan 1971
Citric Acid: 12 Dec 1970
Citroen, Andre: 30 Oct, 13 Nov 1971
Cittern: 23 Jan 1971
City of Truro: 3 Apr 1971
Civil Rights - America: 24 July 1971
Civil War, American: 6 Mar 1971
Civil War - Charles I: 2 Jan 1971
Civil War - Cromwell: 13 Mar 1971
Clagett, Charles: 19 Sep 1970
Clark, Jim: 3 Oct 1970
Clark, Mark: 20 Nov 1971
Clarke, Richard: 11 Sep 1971
Cleopatra, Queen: 25 Dec 1971; 29 Jan 1972
Cleves, Anne of: 2 Jan 1971
Clifford, Sir Henry: 2 Jan 1971
Clive, Robert: 19 June, 4 Dec 1971
Clocks: 27 Feb, 6 Mar, 10 July 1971
Cloud, Red Sioux: 27 Feb 1971
Coach drivers: 17 Apr 1971
Coalminers: 30 Jan 1971
Coates, Robert 'Romeo': 25 July 1970
Cobb, John: 27 Nov 1971, 12 June 1971
Cobden, Richard: 28 Aug 1971
Cocoa: 4 Sep 1971
Cochrane, Captain: 24 July 1971
Cockerell, Christopher: 21 Nov 1970
Cocking, C.T.: 9 Jan 1971
Cocq, Captain Frans Banninck 12 June 1971
Cody, William F.; 20 Feb, 20 Mar 1971
Cody, S.F.: 17 Apr 1971
Cod-liver oil: 19 Dec 1970
Coins:$
  Cyprus: 30 Jan 1971
  English 1650: 14 Aug 1971
  Fiji: 10 Apr 1971
  Food for Mankind: 21 Aug 1971
  French: 24 Apr 1971
  George VI: 12 June 1971
  Hungary: 3 July 1971
  Isle of Man: 29 May 1971
  Italian: 3 Apr 1971
  Leather industry: 28 Aug 1971
  Lundy: 4 Sep 1971
  Pope, Vatican City: 31 July 1971
  Rhodesia: 12 June 1971
  Silver: 17 Apr 1971
  Silver crowns: 2 Jan 1971
  Special silver coins: 10 July 1971
  Victorian florins: 2 Jan 1971
Collectors Corner:$
  Collectors Corner begins: 25 Sep 1971
  Army buttons: 13 Nov 1971
  Army cap badges: 22 Jan 1972
  Birds' Feathers: 5 Feb 1972
  Butterflies: 18 Dec 1971
  Christmas Cards: 25 Dec 1971
  Coins: 27 Nov 1971
  Enamelled badges: 4 Dec 1971
  Flowers: 19 Feb 1972
  Horse Brasses: 23 Oct 1971
  Key rings: 6 Nov 1971
  Matchbox labels: 15 Jan 1972
  Medals: 25 Sep 1971
  Medal Ribbons: 26 Feb 1972
  Minerals: 1 Jan 1972
  Picture Cards: 29 Jan 1972
  Picture Postcards: 20 Nov 1971
  Railway Tickets: 9 Oct 1971
  Sea Shells: 30 Oct 1971
  Stamps: 25 Dec 1971
  Tree Leaves: 12 Feb 1972
  Victorian scraps: 2 Oct 1971
Collisions at Sea: 10 July 1971
Collosseum: 1 Jan 1972
Colour supplements: 18 Sep 1971
Columbia: 13 June 1970
Columbus, Christopher: 2 Oct 1971
Common Market: 18 Sep 1971
Commons, House of: 25 Sep 1971
Compass: 14 Nov 1970
Computer art: 14 Nov 1970
Computers: 8 Jan 1972; 17 Oct 1970
Comyn, John: 6 Feb 1971
Conan Doyle: 18 July 1970
Concorde: 27 Feb, 5 June, 18 Sep, 20 Nov 1971
Concorde - sonic booms: 25 Dec 1971
Condrieu, France: 9 Jan 1971
Confessions of an Opium Eater: 6 Mar 1971
Conker champion: 2 Jan 1971
Conrad, Joseph: 24 Oct 1970
Conscientious Objectors: 19 Dec 1970
Constable, John: 8 Aug 1970; 17 July 1971
Constantinople: 11 Dec 1971
Captain Cook: 27 June 1970; 16, Jan, 25 Dec, 9 Oct 1971
Cook - Australia: 16 Jan 1971
Cook, Dr, Frederick: 17 Oct 1970
Cook, Thomas (Travel): 19 June 1971
Cooper, Henry: 18 July 1970
Copenhagen: 29 Jan 1972
Copernicus, N.: 13 Feb 1971
Coppens, Willy: 24 Apr 1971
Coral: 26 Sep 1970
Corbridge: 10 Apr 1971
Corday, Charlotte: 14 Nov 1970, 10 July, 6 Nov 1971
Corn: 6 Mar 1971
Cornet: 26 Dec 1970
Cornwall: 25 July 1970
Corrichie Burn, battle of: 3 July 1971
Coronado, Francisco: 16 Jan 1971
Cortes, Hernando: 20 Nov 1971
Corunna, battle of: 9 Jan, 21 Aug 1971
Cossacks: 16 Oct 1971
Costume 1900: 8 May 1971
Cottington, Jack: 24 Apr 1971
Country Craftsmen begins: 2 Jan 1971
County Hall, London: 30 Oct 1971
Court, Margaret: 10 Apr 1971
Cowboys: 13 Mar 1970; 13 Mar, 24 Apr 1971
Crabb, Commander: 6 Mar 1971
Crab, Hermit: 28 Nov 1970
Crafts:$
  Barrels: 20 Feb 1971
  Chairs: 13 Mar 1971
  Cricket bat willow: 16 Jan 1971
  Hazel fences: 23 Jan 1971
  Ladders: 30 Jan 1971
  Straw: 6 Mar 1971
  Thatchers: 9 Jan 1971
  Walking sticks: 13 Feb 1971
  Willow weavers: 27 Feb 1971
Cranmer, Thomas: 12 Sep 1970; 2 Oct, 20 Mar 1971
Cranwell, Lincs, 23 Jan 1971
Crecy, battle of: 3 July, 21 Aug, 16 Oct 1971
Creuse, France: 2 Jan 1971
Cretans: 8 Jan 1972
Crete, battle of: 9 Jan 1971
Crete, King of: 17 Apr 1971
Crete and Mycanae - Part 1: 1 June 1972
Crete - wall paintings: 26 Feb 1972
Cricket: 4 July, 1 Aug 1970; 20 Mar 1971
Cricket, African Tree: 20 Mar 1971
Cricket - Grace: 6 Mar 1971
Crime - Scotland Yard: 2 Oct 1971
Crimean War: 8, 15, 22, 29 May, 5, 12, 19, 26, 18 Sep 1971
Crinolines: 5 Sep 1970
Crisps: 11 Dec 1971
Crocodiles: 4 Dec, 28 Nov 1970
Cromwell, Oliver: 27 June, 19 Sep 1970; 25 Dec, 28 Aug 1971
Cromwell, Thomas: 2 Oct 1971
Crook, General: 16 Jan 1971
Cross, Victoria: 19 June 1971
Crown Jewels stolen: 8 May, 22 May 1971
Cruiser tank: 4 Dec 1971
Crusades: 4 Dec 1971
Crusade, First: 10 July 1971
Crusade, Third: 28 Aug, 4 Sep 1971
Crusade, Fifth: 4 Sep 1971
Crusoe, Robinson: 6 Feb 1971
Crystal Palace: 24 Apr 1971
Crystal Palace: 22 Jan 1972
Cuautla, Slaughter at: 8 Jan 1972
Cuba: 13 Feb, 2 Jan 1971
Cuba - Revolution: 13 Feb 1971
Cuba - Rebellion 1895: 24 July 1971
Cuban crisis: 13 Mar 1971
Cuban revolution: 8 Aug 1970
Cuckoos: 6 Feb 1971
Cullinan diamond: 3 July 1971
Culloden: 22 Jan 1972
Culloden, battle of: 4 Dec 1971
Cuma, battle of: 26 Feb 1972
Cumberland, Duke of: 9 Oct 1971
Cunard Liners: 11 Sep, 10, 17, 24 Apr 1971
Cuneiform writing: 15 Jan 1972
Curie, Marie: 7 Aug 1971
Curious Creatures No. 1: 20 Feb 1971
Curtiss, Glen: 17 July 1971
Custer's Last Stand: 19 June 1971
Customs and Excise: 1 Jan,  1972
Cuthbert, St.: 27 Mar 1971
Cutlery: 5 Dec, 28 Nov 1970
Cycle time-trials: 17 July 1971
Cyprus: 28 Feb, 4 Dec 1971
Czechoslovakia, invasion of: 14 Aug 1971

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# D

Daedalus: 17 Apr 1971
Daffodils: 31 Oct 1970
Daguerre: 8 Aug 1970
Daily Courant, 4 Sep 1971
Daily Mail: 11 Sep 1971
Daily Mirror: 11 Sep 1971
Daily Telegraph: 11 Sep 1971
Daily Universal Register: 4 Sep 1971
Daimler, Gottlieb: 2 Oct 1971
Dalton, John: 17 July 1971
Dam Busters: 11.Sep 1971
Dams: 18 Dec 1971
Dancing: 19 Sep 1970
Danes - battle of Ashdown Forest: 2 Jan 1971
Danish invasion of Britain: 27 Nov, 6 Mar 1971
Danish war god - Raven: 30 Jan 1971
Danube, R.: 9 Jan 1971
Dardanelles: 2 Jan 1971
Darlan, Jean F.: 2 Jan 1971
Darnley, Lord: 14 Aug, 13 Nov 1971; 29 Jan 1972
Darracq cars: 30 Oct 1971
Dartmoor: 8 May 1971
Darwin, Australia: 15 May 1971
Darwin, Charles: 26 June 1971
Darwin and the Beagle: 10 July 1971
D-Day: 19 Sep 1970; 29 May, 5 June 1971
Dauphins, false: 7 Nov 1970
David, the boy: 26 Feb 1972
David King: 18 Dec 1971
Davy Jones Locker: 12 Feb 1972
Davy, Sir Humphrey: 2 Jan, 4 Dec, 22 May 1971; 12 Feb 1972
A Day in the Life of, begins: 5 Feb 1972
Dead Sea Scrolls: 13 June 1970
Deadwood Dick 11 Dec 1971
Deal: 29 Jan 1972
Decibels: 25 Dec 1971
Dee, R. 23 Jan, 5, 19, 26 June 1971
Deep Diver: 23 Jan 1971
Deep Sea Creatures: 12 Sep 1970
Deer - footprint: 7 Aug 1971
Deer, Red: 13 Mar 1971; 21 Nov 1970
Dees, Henry: 18 Sep 1971
Defoe, Daniel: 24 Apr 1971; 7 Nov 1970
Degas: 7 Aug 1971
Delhi: 2, 9, 16 Jan 1971
Delphic Oracle: 15 Jan 1972
Delta Country: 27 Mar 1971
Dentistry No 1: 6, 13, 27 Feb 1971
Depression, Great: 8 May 1971
The Great Detectives begins: 1 Jan 1972
Dettingen, Battle Of: 26 June 1971
Devil's Island: 1 May 1971
Diamonds: 1 Aug 1970; 3 July 1971
Diamond Smugglers: 14 Aug 1971
Diamond Thieves: 22 May 1971
Diaz, Porfiro: 22 May 1971; 26 Feb 1972
Dickens as jounalist: 4 Sep 1971
Dickens, Charles: 26 Dec, 15 Aug 1970; 6 Feb 1971
Didgeridoo: 12 Dec 1970
Diesel, Rudolph: 11 Dec 1971
Dion, Albert de: 2 Oct 1971
Dinosaurs: 31 July 1971
Disasters: begins: 1 Jan 1972
Disney, Walt: 25 Sep, 6 Mar 1971
Disraeli: 14 Nov 1970
Doctor, Flying: 14 Nov 1970
Doctors: 30 Oct 1970
Dogger Bank Incident: 28 Aug, 11 Sep 1971
Doggett, Thomas: 31 July 1971
Dollies: 6 Mar 1971
Dolls, story of: 13, 20 Feb 1971
Donatello: 28 Aug 1971
Donkey Breed Society: 29 Jan 1972
Doodle bugs: 27 June 1970
Doolittle, Jim: 8 May 1971
Dornier: 12 June 1971
Dornier Flying Boats: 3 Oct 1970
Douglas family - Scotland: 11 Dec 1971
Dover: 29 Jan 1972
Dover, White Cliffs of: 1 Aug 1970
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: 3 July, 24 July, 3 Oct, 16 Oct 1971; 5 Feb 1972
Dragon, Komodo: 12 June 1971
Dragonfly: 5 June 1971
Dragons: 19 Feb 1972
Drake, Sir Francis: 19 Feb 1972; 13 Mar 1971
Drama - putting on a play: 26 Feb 1971
Dreyfus, Alfred: 10 July 1971
Drome River: 23 Jan 1971
Drought: 18 Dec 1971
Drury Lane Theatre: 11 July 1970
Duberlet, Mrs F.: 12 June 1971
Dublin: 14 Nov 1970
Ducew truck: 4 Dec 1971
Dudley, Robert: 2 Jan, 25 Sep 1971
Dudley's wife, Amy: 25 Sep 1971
Duke, Neville: 18 Sep 1971
Dunant, Henry: 24 Apr, 21 Aug 1971
Duncan, King of Scotland: 7 Aug 1971
Dungeness: 15 Aug 1970
Dunkirk - WWII: 4 Dec, 5 June 1971
Dutch East India Co.: 13 Mar 1971
Dutch Grand Prix 1971: 28 Aug 1971
Dutchman Mine, lost: 10 Oct 1970
Dyeing: 25 July 1970

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# E

Eagles: 28 Aug 1971
Eagles over Western Front begins: 24 July 1971
Early man: 2 Oct 1971
Earthquake forecasts: 7 Aug 1971
Earthquake - San Francisco: 18 Dec 1971
Earthquake - Tokyo: 12 Feb 1972
Earth, weight of: 24 July 1971
Earwigs: 1 Jan 1972
East, Middle: 9 Oct 1971
Easter Rising, Ireland: 4 Sep 1971
Ecuador: 4 July 1970; 22 May 1971
Eddy, Thomas: 26 Sep 1970
Edison, Thomas: 2 Jan 1971; 12 Feb 1972
Edward I: 12 June, 18 Dec 1971: 1 Jan 1972
Edward II: 20 Mar 1971
Edward III: 16 Oct, 26 June, 14 Aug 1971
Edward VII: 8 May, 30 Oct 1971; 15, 29 Jan 1972
Edward VIII, abdication: 29 May 1971
Edward, Black Prince: 16 Oct 1971
Edward the Confessor: 2 Jan 1971
Eels: 9 Jan 1971
Egypt: 11 July 1970; 14 Aug 1971
Egypt - Cleopatra: 29 Jan 1972
Egypt - Nasser: 24 July 1971
Egyptians: 20 Nov 1971
Egyptian art: 27 Nov, 4 Dec 1971
Egyptian clothes: 11 Dec 1971
Egyptian food: 11 Dec 1971
Egyptian furnishings: 11 Dec 1971
Egyptian legend: 27 June 1970
Egyptian Mummies: 27 Nov 1971
Egyptian pyramids: 11 Dec 1971
Egyptians - relics: 25 Dec 1971
Egyptian servants: 18 Dec 1971
Egyptian Sun god Ra: 20 Nov 1971
Eiffel Tower: 10 Apr, 31 July 1971
Einstein, Albert: 17 July 1971
Eisenhower, Dwight D.: 18 Dec 1971
Eisteddfod: 23 Jan 1971
El Alamein: 2 Oct 1971
El Dorado: 26 Sep 1970
Election, General 1900: 8 May 1971
Electric cars: 29 Jan 1972
Electric power: 10 Apr 1971
Electric typewriter: 20 Feb 1971
Electricity: 2 Jan 1971
Electricity - through a vacuum: 12 Feb 1972
Electro-magnetism: 4 Dec 1971
Electron microscope: 9 Jan 1971
Electronics, micro: 20 Feb 1971
Electronics: Japan: 20 Feb 1971
Elephants: 7 Nov 1970
Elephants - trunk: 28 Aug 1971
Elgar, Edward: 29 May 1971
Eliot, George: 14 Nov 1970
Eliot, T.S.: 30 Jan 1971
Elizabeth: 19 Feb 1972; 7, 21 Aug, 25 Sep 1971; 13 June 1970
Elizabeth I and II: 22 Jan 1972
Elizabeth II - coronation: 30 Jan 1971
Elizabeth II Queen: 18 Sep 1971
Elizabeth, excommunication: 20 Feb 1971
Elizabethan Cook: 12 Feb 1972
Elizabethan make-up/hair-styles: 11 Dec 1971
Embroidery, English: 22 Aug 1970
Emperor, Rome Galaa: 9 Jan 1971
Empire, British: 2 Jan 1971
Empire State Building: 27 Nov 1971
Empress, Holy Roman: 23 Oct 1971
Engineering (tunnel): 3 Oct 1970
England - Scots invasion: 4 Dec 1971
English Civil War: 7 Aug 1971
Eocene Age - beasts: 1 May 1971
Ephesus, Temple of: 1971
Escape, begins: 1 May 1971
Escutial, The: 26 Feb 1972
Essays of Eliza - Lamb: 9 Jan 1971
Essex, Earl of: 19 Feb 1972
Ethelbert: 27 Mar 1971
Ethelred: 20 Mar 1971
Ethelred, King: 2 Jan 1971
Ethiopia: 30 Jan, 17 July 1971
Etruscans, Part One: 26 Feb 1972
Euphonium: 26 Dec 1970
Euphrates: 5 Dec 1970
Europe, Grand Tour: 5 June 1971
Evans: 16 Jan 1971
Evans, Sir Arthur: 10 July 1971
Evans, Arthur: 4 July 1970
Everest, Mount: 12 June, 13 Feb, 6 Nov 1971
Everglades National Park: 13 Mar 1971
Every Picture tells a Story, begins: 12 June 1971
Evesham, battle of: 31 July 1971
Exhibition, Great: 24 Apr 1974
Exodus, the: 24 Apr 1971
Expedition: (Waterton): 22 Aug 1970
Exploring the Underwater World, begins: 15 May 1971
Eye: 2 Jan 1971
Eyston, George: 27 Nov 1971

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# F

Faculty of Advocates: 21 Nov 1970
Fairs: 12 June 1971
Fairs, trade: 29 May 1971
Falkirk, battle of: 17 July 1971
Falkland Islands: 30 Oct 1971
Family life: 9 Jan 1971
Family life, Medieval: 23 Jan 1971
Family life, Normans: 16 Jan 1971
Family life, Tudor: 23 Jan 1971
Family life, 17th century: 30 Jan 1971
Family life, 18th century: 6 Feb 1971
Family life, 1850s: 13 Feb 1971
Famous Families, begins: 28 Aug 1971
Famous Partnerships, begins: 26 June 1971
Famous Places, begins: 18 Dec 1971
Fangio, Juan: 16 Jan, 11 Dec 1971
Faraday, Michael: 4 Dec, 21 Aug 1971
Farquharson, John: 5 June,  1971
Facio: 26 June 1971
Fascism: 14 Aug, 22 May 1971
Fashion (Georgian): 29 Aug 1970
Fashion, (seat skirts): 20 Feb 1971
Fashion (sport): 19 Sep 1970
Fashion (Wigs): 12 Sep 1970
Father Christmas: 10 Oct 1970
Fawkes, Guy: 24 July 1971
F.B.I.: 15 May 1971; 8 Jan 1972
Fellowship of the Ring: 17 Oct 1970
Fences - hurdle and wattle: 23 Jan 1971
Feisal, King: 9 Oct 1971
Festival of Britain: 1 May 1971
Fielding, Henry: 21 Nov 1970
Film making: 27 Feb 1971
Film scores: 22 May 1971
Films - silent comedies: 23 Jan 1971
Finucane, Paddy: 13 Nov 1971
Fiossaiche, Coinneach: 22 Jan 1972
Fire and Ambulance Services: 30. Oct 1971
Fire: 28 Nov 1970
Fire Escape - portable: 20 Feb 1971
Fire-fighters: 5 Sep 1970
Firemen: 24 Oct 1970
Fire Service: 13 Feb 1971
Fire, The Great: 1 Jan 1972
First Aid: 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar, 6, 13 Feb, 30 Jan 1971
First World War: 15 May 1971
Firth of Forth Bridge: 13 Nov 1971
Fish: 5 Sep 1970; 6 Feb, 30 Jan 1971
Fish, Coelacanth: 12 June 1971
Fish, flat: 16 Jan 1971
Fish (flying): 6 Feb 1971
Fish porcupine: 6 Feb 1971
Fish (Pre-historic): 22 Aug 1970
Fish, puffer: 6 Feb 1971
Fisher, John: 16 Jan 1971
Fishing: 19 Sep 1970; 6 Mar 1971; 22 Jan 1972
Fleming, Sir Alexander: 6 Mar 1971
Flies: 18 Sep 1971
Flight, begins: 11 July 1970
Flight, a story of: 3, 10 Apr 1971
Flodden, battle of: 11 Dec 1971
Flood, Great: 8 May 1971
Floods, prevention of: 19 June 1971
Florence, Italy: 28 Aug 1971
Florida: 6 Mar 1971
Flute: 2 Jan 1971
Fly, Ichneumon: 1 May 1971
Flying Aces: 11 Sep 1971
Flying Doctor :14 Nov 1970; 15 May 1971
Flying machine: 27 Mar 1971
Flying Saucers: 4 July 1970
Fly-wheel: 13 Mar 1971
Folk Music festival: 23 Jan 1971
Fokker: 8 May 1971
Fokker planes: 24 Apr 1971
Fontenoy, Battle of: 8 May 1971
Food: 11 Dec 1971
Food - under the sea: 6 Feb 1971
Football: 12 Dec 1970
Football - Cup Final 1956: 9 Jan 1971
Football, Manchester City: 9 Jan 1971
Ford, Henry: 14 Aug 1971
Ford, John: 9 Oct 1971
Forensic Science: 2 Oct 1971
'Forerunner': 3 Apr 1971
Forest rangers: 10 Apr 1971
Forgery - Kruger: 28 Aug 1971
Forging works, Abbeydale: 2 Jan 1971
Forgotten men of Science, begins: 3 July 1971
Forrest, General Nathan: 24 July 1971
Forsythia plant: 11 Sep 1971
Fort Knox: 16 Oct 1971
Fort Stikine: 13 Mar 1971
'Forty Winks' - origin: 13 Mar 1971
For Your entertainment No 1: 20 Feb 1971
Fossils: 1 May 1971
Foster, Stephen: 20 Feb 1971
Fox, George: 9 Jan 1971
Foxes: 14 Nov 1970; 21 Aug 1971
France - court life: 10 Apr 1971
France - R. Rhone: 2 Jan 1971
France - Revolution: 15 May 1971
Francis I: 11 Dee: 1971
Francis II: 4 Sep 1971
Francis Ferdinand: 4 Sep 1971
Franco, General: 14 Aug, 20 Mar, 10 July 1971
Franco-Prussian War: 18 Sep 1971
Frank, Anne: 14 Aug 1971
Franklin, Benjamin: 16 Jan 1971
Franklin, John: 5 June 1971
Franklin, Sir John: 12 Sep 1970
Franz Joseph: 4 Sep 1971
Frederick II: 4 Sep 1971
Frederick the Great: 23 Oct 1971
Frederick William, King of Prussia: 18 July 1970
Freedom of the Skies: 3. Apr, 19 June 1971
Freight Ship: 30 Jan 1971
French invasion of Algeria: 1 Jan 1972
French Guiana: 13 June 1970
French Resistance: 4 Dec, 18 Sep 1971
French Revolution: 15 Aug 1970; 10 July, 6 Nov 1971; 19, 26 Feb, 15 Jan 1972
Freri, Prospero: 1 May 1971
Freud, Sigmund: 18 Sep 1971
Frog, Arrow Poison: 13 Mar 1971
Froissart, Jean: 24 Apr 1971
From Then Till Now, begins: 4 Sep 1971
Fry. C.B.: 6 Mar 1971
Fry, Elizabeth (Gurney): 2, 23 Jan 1971
Fulton, Robert: 20 Feb, 26 June 1971
Funmobile: 20 Feb 1971
Fundin, Ove: 11 Sep 1971
Furness: 21 Aug 1971
Furniture: 15, 29 Aug, 12, 19, 26 Sep, 3 Oct 1970; 3, 10, 24 Apr, 1, 8 May 1971
Furniture (Hepplewhite): 16 Jan 1971
Furniture (Robert Adam): 16 Jan 1971
Furniture (Satinwood): 23 Jan 1971
Furniture (Sheraton): 23 Jan 1971

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# G

Gabelich, Gary: 27 Nov 1971
Gable, Clark: 25 Sep 1971
Gagarin, Yuri: 10 July, 19 June 1971; 12 Feb 1972
Gainsborough, Thomas: 24 July 1971
Galba, Servius: 9 Jan 1971
Galilieo, Galilei: 2 Jan 1971
Gall crab: 19 Dec 1970
Galland, Adolf: 15 May 1971
Gallipoli, battle of: 2 Jan, 31 July 1971
Galt, Ontario, Canada: 2 Jan,  1971
Galt - founder: 2 Jan 1971
Gama, Vasco de: 27 Feb, 10 Apr 1971
Gambia, River: 26 June 1971
Games, everlasting: 26 Sep 1970
Games (Indoor): 12 Sep 1970
Gandhi: 1 Aug 1970; 13 Feb, 25 Sep 1971
Gandhi (Mrs): 27 March. 1971
Ganelon, Count: 17 July, 31 July 1971
Ganges: 31 Oct 1970
Garduna society: 17 July 1971
Garfield, President: 5 Dec 1970; 6 June 1971
Garibaldi, Guiseppe: 27 Nov, 3 July 1971
Garnerin, Andre: 1 May 1971
Garret, Major: 19 Sep 1970
Garres, Roland: 17 Apr 1977
Garter, Order of the: 5 Feb 1972
Gases, study of: 24 July 1971
Gas leakages detectors: 16 Jan 1971
Gaslight: 1 Jan 1972; 19 Dec 1970
Gateshead: 17 Apr 1971
Gatti, Attilio: 29 May 1971
Gatwick Airport: 27 June 1970
Gaulle, General de: 2 Jan, 1 May 1971
Gaunt, John of: 19 June, 27 Mar, 9 Jan, 17 July 1971
Gaza, WWI: 20 Mar 1971
Geese: 23 Jan, 20 Feb 1971
Gelatine: 5 Dec 1970
Gemini project: 19 June 1971
General Election: 6 Nov 1971
General Strike: 18 Sep 1971
George Cross: 18 Sep, 13 Nov 1971
George I: 17 July 1971
George II: 20 Nov 1971
George III: 9 Oct, 19 June 1971
George IV: 7 Aug 1971; 13 June 1970
George VI: 12 June 1971
Geraniums: 12 Dec 1970
Gerenuk: 6 Mar 1971
German Federal Railways: 27 Nov 1971
Germany, division: 26 June 1971
Gerrard, Joseph: 26 Dec 1970
Gestapo: 9 Jan 1971
Getaway cars: 13 Nov 1971
Gettysburg, battle of: 17 July, 26 June 1971
Ghana: 27 Mar 1971
Ghana - cocoa: 4 Sep 1971
Gibraltar: 6 Nov 1971
Gibraltar, British capture: 17 July 1971
Gibson, Guy: 11 Sep 1971
Gilbert, W.S.: 3 July 1971
Gilbert and Sullivan: 3 July 1971
Gillette, Safety Razors: 12 Feb 1972
Gilmore, Howard: 5 June 1971
Gimondi, Felice - cyclist: 31 July 1971
Giraffe: 16 Jan 1971
Girondins: 6 Nov 1971
Giuliano, Salvatore: 29 May 1971
Givors, France: 9 Jan 1971
Gladstone and Disraeli: 22 Jan 1972
Glass: 19 Dec 1970
Glass: 5 Feb 1972
Glass for roads: 6 Feb 1971
Glastonbury Abbey: 1 May 1971
Glenn, John: 19 June 1971
Gliders: 10 Apr, 1 May 1971
Gloucester Cathedral: 20 Mar 1971
Gnu: 24 Oct, 3 Oct 1970
Go-Karting: 8 Jan 1972
Goodyear, Charles: 25 July 1970; 28 Aug 1971
Gogh, Van: 28 Mar, 3 July, 24 July 1971
Goolagong, Evonne: 9 Oct 1971
Gold: 10, 24, 31 Oct, 28 Nov 1970
Gold, California: 23 Jan 1971
Gold-diggers, Australian: 7 Nov 1970
Gold Rush, California: 18 Dec 1971; 30 Oct 1970
Golden Eagle: 1 Aug 1970
Gold mines, Australia: 17 Apr, 26 June, 29 May 1971
Goldsmith, Oliver: 5 Dec 1970; 3 Apr 1971
Golf: 10 Apr 1971
Golf (British Open): 15 Aug 1970
Golfers: 7 Aug 1971
'Goliath': 1 May 1971
Gollancz, Victor: 14 Aug 1971
Gonzalez, J.F.: 6 Feb 1971
Goose (Greylag): 4 July 1970
Gordon, Charles G.: 23 Jan 1971
Gordon Pirie: 6 June 1970
Gordon Riots: 12 Feb 1972
Gordon Bennet Race: 11 Dec 1971
Goteborg, Sweden: 3 Apr 1971
Goya: 31 July 1971
Goyder, William: 15 May 1971
Grace, W.G.: 6 Mar 1971
Graf Zeppelin: 1 May 1971
Granada, Spain: 30 Oct 1971
Grand Canal, Venice: 15 Jan 1972
Grand Canyon: 17 Apr 1971
Grand Prix: 11 Dec 1971
Grant, General: 3 Apr, 24 July 1971
Graphite: 3 Oct 1970
Gravity: 17 July, 14 Aug 1971
Grays Inn: 24 Oct 1971
Great Fire of Boston: 22 Jan 1972
Great Train Murder: 15 Jan 1972
Greater London Council: 30 Oct 1971
Greater Shearwater: 29 May 1971
Greek coins: 26 June 1971
Greek legend: 20 June 1970
Greek myths: 14, 21 Aug 1971
Greek war: 13 June 1970
Green, Hughie - WWII: 18 Sep 1971
Greenland: 5 June 1971
Greenshank: 18 July 1970
Greenwich Fair: 19 June 1971
Greenwich Observatory: 7 Aug 1971
Gregory (monk): 2 Oct 1971
Greville. George: 2 Jan 1971
Grey, Lady Jane: 3 July 1971
Grey Owl: 4 Sep 1971
Grey, Sir George: 20 Mar 1971
Grey, Jane: 4 July 1970
Grieg, Edward: 28 Aug 1971
Grignon, France: 23 Jan 1971
Grischin, Evgeni: 18 Sep 1971
Grotiuis, Hugo: 18 Dec 1971
Growler submarine: 5 June 1971
Guards Armoured division: 14 Aug 1971
Guardian, The: 22 Jan 1972
Gudonov, Boris: 5 Feb 1972
Guernica, Gasque: 24 Apr, 14 Aug 1971
Guevara, Che: 8 Aug 1970
Guggenheim Museum: 16 Oct 1971
Guildhall: 12 Feb 1972
Guise, Duke of: 6 Nov 1971
Guiteau, Charles J.: 26 June 1971; 5 Dec 1970
Gunpowder - early uses: 14 Aug 1971
Guns: 24 Apr 1971
Gurkha troops: 30 Oct 1971
Gurney, Elizabeth: 23 Jan 1971
Gustavius Adolphus: 18 Dec 1971
Guyana: 6 June 1970
Guynemer, George: 24 Apr 1971

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# H

Haardraade, Harold: 16 Oct, 18 Sep 1971
Hadrian's Wall, 3 Apr, 27 Mar 1971
Haile Selassie: 24 Oct 1970
Halle Orchestra: 22 Jan 1972
Halloween customs: 1 Jan 1972
Halsewell: 2 Jan 1971
Hammarskjold. Dag: 14 Nov 1970; 13 Mar 1971
Hammurabir, King: 15 Jan 1972
Handel: 24 Apr 1971
Handley Page: 1 May 1971
Hanover, Elector of: 9 Oct 1971
Hapsburgs: 4 Sep 1971
Hardy, Oliver: 23 Jan 1971
Hardy, Thomas: 12 Dec 1970
Hare, Blue: 23 Feb 1971
Harley-Davidson engine: 21 Jan 1971
Harmsworth, Alfred (Northcliffe): 11 Sep 1971
Harold I: 13 Mar 1971
Harold of England: 16 Oct 1971
Harpsichord: 26 Sep 1970
Harrison, John: 10 July 1971
Harvest Suppers: 10 July 1971
Harvey, William: 27 Mar 1971
Hastings: 29 Jan 1972
Hastings, battle of: 16 Oct 1971
Haughton Castle: 3 Apr 1971
Haunted Liner begins: 22 Jan 1972
Hawaii - Cook: 16 Jan 1971
Hawking: 8 Aug 1970; 27 Mar 1971
Hawthorn, Mike: 16 Jan 1971
Health Service, National: 3 July 1971
Hebrews: 5, 12, 19 Feb 1972
Helicopters: 12 June, 4, 11, 18 Sep 1971
Helicopters (Chinook): 16 Jan 1971
Helicopters (Heavy-Lift): 10 July 1971
Helicopters (safety of): 18 Dec 1971
Helicopters (Scout): 3 July 1971
Helicopters (Twin Huey): 16 Jan 1971
Helicopters (Westland Sea King): 30 Oct 1971
Helium: 5 Sep 1971
Hemingway, Ernest: 17 July 1971
Hengest and Horsa: 10 July 1971
Henry I: 17 July, 23 Mar 1971
Henry II: 31 July 1971
Henry III of France: 6 Nov 1971
Henry IV: 18 Sep, 27 Mar 1971
Henry IV (Bolingbroke) 24 July 1971
Henry IV of France: 13 Nov 1971
Henry V: 20 Nov, 24, 31 July 1971
Henry VI: 7 Aug 1971
Henry VII: 31 July, 2 Oct, 20 Nov, 21 Aug 1971
Henry VIII: 2 Jan, 5 June 1971
Henry VIII's brother (Arthur): 23 Jan 1971
Henry VIII - martyrs: 16 Jan 1971
Hepburn, Douglas: 11 Sep 1971
Herat, Afghanistan: 18 Sep 1971
Herbert, A P.: 7 Nov 1970
Herculaneum: 2 Oct 1971
Hercules-Beetle: 6 Mar 1971
Hercules: 14 Aug 1971
Here is the News, begins: 4 Sep 1971
Hereford Cathedral: 27 Mar 1971
Herodotus: 20 Nov 1971; 26 Feb 1972
Heroes, heroines, begins: 14 Aug 1971
Herriot, Maurice: 28 Aug 1971
Herschel, Sir William: 6 Mar 1971
Hess, Rudolf: 12 June 1971
Hexham: 10 Apr 1971
Hexham Priory: 10 Apr 1971
Hiccoughs: 23 Oct 1971
Hidalgo, Father: 1 Jan 1972
Hieroglyphics: 25 Dec 1971
Highlanders: 17 Apr 1971
Highwaymen: 24 Apr 1971
Hilary, Edmund: 22 May, 12 June 1971
Hill, Graham: 20 Mar 1971
Hill, Sir Roland: 9 Jan 1971
Himmler, Heinrich: 9 Jan 1971
Hindenburg: 30 Jan, 1 May 1971
Hippopotamus: 9 Jan 1971
Hirohito, Emperor: 12 Feb 1972
Hiroshima: 12 June, 29 May, 22 Jan 1971
History in Stone, No. 1: 6 Mar 1971
History of England by Macaulay: 10 Apr 1971
Hitler, Adolf: 9 Jan, 17 Apr, 2 Oct, 1 May, 29 May 1971
Hitler, assassination attempt: 17 July 1971
Hitler, Chancellor: 23 Jan 1971
Hitler - Gestapo: 9 Jan 1971
Hitler's Mein Kampf: 17 July 1971
Hobson, Captain - New Zealand: 30 Jan 1971
Hodson Lieutenant: 9 Jan 1971
Holbein - Anne of Cleves: 2 Jan 1971
Holbrook, Gunfight at: 17 July 1971
Holden, Taffy: 1 Aug 1970
Holidays: 10 July 1971
Holland, Clifford Milburn: 3 Oct 1970
Holloway Prison: 24 Apr 1971
Holly: 26 Dec 1970
Holmes, Sherlock: 24 July 1971
Holy Roman Empire: 4 Sep 1971
Holyrood House: 29 Jan 1972
Home Guard: 5 June 1971
Honey guide: 19 Dec 1970
Hong Kong: 20 Nov, 22 May 1971
Hood, Robin: 7 Nov 1970; 13 Nov, 16, 30 Jan 1971
Hooke, Robert: 3 July 1971
Hoopoe: 25 July 1970
Hoover, Edgar J.: 15 May 1971; 8 Jan 1972
Horn, Cape: 23 Jan 1971
Horn, French: 16 Jan 1971
Horned Toad: 6 Mar 1971
Hornet Aircraft: 30 Jan 1971
Horse (Barb) 20 June 1970
Horse (prehistoric): 4 July 1970
Horse race - longest: 7 Aug 1971
Horse-racing: 27 June, 24 Oct 1970
Horse, tallest: 2 Jan 1971
Horse, White, Kilburn: 19 June 1971
Houston, Sam: 29 Jan 1972
Hover-caravans. 14 Nov 1970
Hovercraft: 18 July, 21 Nov 1970; 24 July, 29 May 1971
Howard, Sir Edward: 12 Feb 1972
Howard, Henry: 16 Jan 1971
Howard, Thomas: 24 July 1971
Howe, Elias: 11 Sep 1971
Howe, Richard Earl: 31 July 1971
Hughes, Howard: 19 June 1971
Hugot: 2 Oct 1971
Huguenots: 27 Feb, 13 Nov 1971
Hulme, Denis: 30 Jan 1971
Humming Bird: 20 Mar 1971
Hundred Years' War: 26 June 1971 - 14 Aug 1971
Hungary: 4 July 1970
Hunting: 8 Aug 1970
Huntingdonshire Fair: 5 June 1971
Huntsman, Benjamin: 2 Jan 1971
Hurdy-Gurdy: 9 Jan 1971
Huron Indians: 12 Dec 1970; 20 Feb 1971
Hurricane forecasts: 7 Aug 1971
Hus, John: 2 Jan 1971
Hussein, Sherif: 9 Oct 1971
Hussein, King: 23 Jan 1971
Hydraulic engines: 7 Aug 1971
Hydrogen Bomb: 29 Jan 1972
Hythe: 29 Jan 1972

# -------------------------------------------
# I

Ice speedway: 4 Sep 1971
Ice sports: 19 Dec 1970
Ickx, Jacky: 30 Jan 1971
Ides of March: 28 Nov 1970
illustrated London News: 18 Sep 1971
Imperial Crown: 22 May 1971
Imperial Hotel, Tokyo: 16 Oct 1971
Incas: 24 Oct 1970
Independence, Declaration of: 3 July 1971
India: 1 Aug, 5 Dec 1970; 2 Jan, 25 Sep 1971
India-British Empire: 6 June 1970; 9 Jan, 23 Jan 1971
India - Gandhi: 13 Feb 1971
India - Invasion of: 13 Nov 1971
India Massacre: 24 Apr 1971
India - modern: 27 Mar 1971
India - World War II: 20 Feb 1971
Indian history: 13 June 1970
Indian Mutiny: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Jan 1971
Indian Thugs: 3 July 1971
Indians, American:$
  Cherokee: 6 Feb 1971
  Cheyenne: 30 Jan 1971
  Hurons: 20 Feb 1971
  Lower Nez Perce: 13 Feb 1971
  Massai: 10 July 1971
  Ottowas: 23 Jan 1971
  Sioux: 27 Feb 1971
  Redskin tribes: 1 May 1971
Indus, River: 26 Dec 1970
Infinity: 14 Aug 1971
Inner Temple: 10 Oct 1970
Innocent III, Pope: 10 July 1971
Inns of Chancery: 31 Oct 1970
Inns of Court (Begins): 3 Oct 1970
Inns of London (Legal): 7 Nov 1970
Insurance - Lloyd's: 27 Nov 1971
Interferometer: 1 Aug 1970
International Law: 18 Dec 1971
Interpol: 29 Jan 1972
The Invaders, begins: 25 Sep 1971
Invalid carriages: 25 Dec 1971
Invasion of Normandy: 5 June 1971
The Inventors, begins: 5 Feb 1971
Inventors: 13, 20 Feb 1971
Inventors - Davies: 6 Feb 1971
Invertebrates: 25 July, 1 Aug 1970
Iran (Persia) 21 Aug 1971
Ireland, division of: 19 June 1971
Ireland, Easter Rising: 4 Sep 1971
Ireland, Legend: 13 June 1970
Ireland, Potato Famine: 13 June 1970
Ireland, Rebellion: 4 July 1970
Irey, Elmer: 26 Feb 1972
Irish Question: 19 June 1971
Iron: 6 Feb 1971
Iron into steel: 21 Aug 1971
Iron Works, W. Australia: 1 May 1971
Iron workers: 6 Feb 1971
Iroquois - Indian tribe: 9 Jan 1971
Irrawaddy River: 12 Dec 1970
Irwin, James: 15 Jan 1972
Islamic faith: 23 Oct 1971
Island, Treasure: 1 May 1971
Israelis: 25 Dec 1971
Israelites: 8 May 1971
Italy: 27 June 1970
Italy, Unification. of: 27 Nov 1971
Iturbide, Austin de: 15 Jan 1972
Ivan III: 5 Feb 1972
Ivan the Terrible: 5 Feb 1972; 13 Mar 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# J

Jabara, Captain James: 10 July 1971
Jacana bird: 13 Mar 1971
Jackal: 28 Nov 1970
Jacklin, Tony: 10 July 1971
Jacobins: 6 Nov 1971
Jaguar - E-type car: 25 Sep 1971
James, Jesse and Frank: 6 Feb, 14 Aug 1971
James I: 2 Jan, 20 Mar, 11 Sep 1971
James I and VI: 24 July 1971
James II: 11 Sep 1971
James V of Scotland: 11 Dec 1971
James VI of Scotland: 20 Mar 1971
Japan: 4 July, 1 Aug, 15 Aug 1970
Japan - industries: 20 Feb 1971
Japan, invasion of New Guinea: 17 July 1971
Japan, modern: 4 Sep 1971
Japan, Samurai: 6 Nov 1971
Japan, Suma: 6 Nov 1971
Japanese tanks: 15 May 1971
Jarrow Crusade: 17 Apr, 29 May 1971
Jarvis, Jim: 16 Jan 1971
Jason and the Argonauts: 14 Aug 1971
Jeep: 4 Dec 1971
Jehovah: 5 Feb 1972
Jenny Wren: 9 Jan 1971
Jericho, Walls of: 18 Dec 1971
Jerome of Prague: 2 Jan 1971
Jerusalem: 19 Feb 1972
Jerusalem (Crusades) 4 Sep 1971
Jerusalem, history: 25 Dec 1971
Jervis Bay: 11 July 1970
Jesters: 12 June 1971
Jets - Mirage 5: 2 Jan 1971
Jets, mini: 5 June 1971
Jet engines - Railways: 22 May 1971
Jew's Harp: 19 Sep 1970
Joan of Kent: 12 June 1971
Joan of Arc: 29 May, 7 Aug 1971
John O'Groat's: 22 Aug 1970
John, King: 12 June, 28 Aug 1971; 12 Feb 1972
John, King of France: 10 July 1971
Johnson, Amy: 28 Aug 1971
Johnson, James Edgar: 15 May 1971
Johnson, Samuel: 16 Jan, 11 Sep 1971
Johnson, Sir William: 23 Jan 1971
Johnstown Flood, The: 15 Jan 1972
Jolson, Al: 22 May, 9 Oct 1971
Jones, Inigo: 26 Feb 1972
Jonson, Ben, 31 July 1971
Jordan: 28 Nov 1970
Joseph: 5 Feb 1972
Joshua: 18 Dec 1971
Journalists: 4 Sep 1971
Journey down Rhone, ends: 6 Feb 1971
Journeys into the Unknown, begins: 29 May 1971
Jousting: 6 Mar 1971
Joyce, James: 30 Jan 1971
Joyce, William: 15 May 1971
Juarez, Benito: 12 Feb 1972
Judeans: 19 Feb 1972
Judge Jeffreys: 10 Oct 1970
Judo: 22 Aug 1970
Jumbo Jet: 18 July 1970
Jungle warfare - World War II: 23 Oct 1971
Junkers - aircraft: 1 May 1971
Jupiter: 19 Feb 1972; 7 Aug 1971
Justice: 3 Oct 1970
Jutland, battle of: 29 May 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# K

Kabul, Afghanistan: 6 Mar, 8 Sep 1971
Kaiser Wilhelm I: 30 Jan 1971
Kalgoorie, Australia: 17 Apr 1971
Karate: 11 Sep 1971
Karpis, Alvin: 8 Jan 1972
Karroo, Africa: 26 June 1971
Kazakov, Alexander: 24 Apr 1971
Keaton, Buster: 23 Jan 1971
Keller, Helen: 26 June 1971
Kelly, Ned: 21 Nov 1970; 1 Jan 1972
Kelly ship: 9 Jan 1971
Kemal Ataturk: 28 Aug 1971
Kennedy, President J.F.: 7 Nov, 12 Dec 1970; 19 June 1971
Kennedy, Senator Robert: 5 June 1971
Kent, Constance - Murder: 9 Oct 1971
Kentucky Derby: 15 May 1971
Kenya, Mount: 27 Mar 1971
Khan, Genghis: 27 Nov 1971
Khan, Kublai: 6, 27 Nov 1971
Kidd, Captain William: 22 May 1971
Killiecrankie: 29 May 1971
Killigrew, Thomas: 11 July 1970
Kindrochit Castle: 5 June 1971
King, Derrick: 23 Jan 1971
Kingfisher bird: 13 Mar 1971
Kingsford-Smith, Sir Charles: 19 Dec 1970
The King's Musketeers, begins: 15 May 1971
King's Inns, Dublin: 14 Nov 1970
Kitchener, Lord: 3 Apr, 30 Oct 1971; 29 Jan 1972
Klondike Gold Rush: 31 Oct 1970; 5 June 1971
Knights of the Round Table: 1 May 1971
Knights Hospitaliers: 28 Aug 1971
Knights Templar: 20 Sep 1970; 9 Jan, 28 Aug 1971
Knights, 15th century: 1 May 1971
Knossus: 4 July 1970; 17 Apr 1971; 8 Jan 1972
Knossus Excavations: 10 July 1971
Knox, Fort: 16 Oct 1971
Kon-Tiki: 26 Sep 1970
Kookaburra: 9 Oct 1971
Korea: 11 Sep 1971
Korean War: 29 May, 10 July, 19 June, 11 Sep 1971
Kozhedub, Colonel Ivan: 22 May 1971
Krakatao Volcano: 3 Apr 1971
Kruger, Paul: 24 Oct 1970
Kruger, Bernhard: 28 Aug 1971
Krupp family: 11 Dec 1971
Ku Klux Klan: 24 Joly 1971
Kulelu tribe: 30 Oct 1970
Kurds: 21 Aug 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# L

Labouchere, Henry: 11 Sep 1971
Labour Exchanges: 30 Jan 1971
Labyrinth, Crete: 17 Apr 1971; 1 Jan 1972
Labyrinthine Trumpet: 9 Jan 1971
Lacewing fly: 20 Feb 1971
Ladders: 30 Jan 1971
Ladybird: 12 June 1971
La Fayette, Marquis de: 15 May 1971
Lakin, John: 14 Aug 1971
Lalement, Gabriel: 12 Dec 1970
Lamb, Charles: 9 Jan, 4 Sep 1971
Lambert, Daniel: 17 July 1971
Land's End: 25 July 1970
Landseer Edwin: 11 Sep 1971
Lascaux cave paintings: 11 Sep 1971
Laser beam: 20 Feb 1971
Laser beam, in tailoring: 12 June 1971
Latude, Masers de: 15 May 1971
Launch, diving: 23 Jan 1971
Laurel, Stan: 23 Jan 1971
La Voulte, France: 23 Jan 1971
Law Breakers, begins: 24 Apr 1971
Law Courts: 9 Oct 1971
Lawrence, D-H: 29 May 1971
lawrence. Gertrude: 6 June 1970
Lawrence, Sir Henry: 30 Jan 1971
Lawrence T.E. (of Arabia): 9 Oct 1971
Lawrence T.E., his death: 15 May 1971
Leaf Insect: 20 Feb 1971
Leda, Queen of Sparta: 23 Jan 1971
Legion of Honour - Mountbatten: 27 Nov 1971
Leigh, Vivien: 12 Feb 1972
Lenglen, Suzanne: 10 Apr 1971
Lenin: 25 July 1970; 5 Feb 1972
Leopold I: 4 Sep 1971
Leopold III: 22 Jan 1972
Leprechaun: 13 June 1970
LeRoy Parker: 27 Mar 1971
Lesseps, Ferdinand de: 24 Apr, 9 Oct 1971
Le Tourneau vehicle: 6 Feb 1971
Lewes, battle of: 8 May 1971
Lexington Hotel, Chicago: 26 Feb 1972
Leyte Gulf, battle of: 14 Aug 1971
Liberty, Statue of: 25 Sep 1971; 12 Feb 1972
Libraries, Dial-a-book: 26 June 1971
Libya: 12 Dec 1970
Lifeboat: 4 July 1970
Lifeboat: 9 Jan 1971
Lifeboat Brucker 23 Jan, 13, 27 Feb, 12 June 1971
Lifeboat service: 31 Oct 1971
Life Guard: 5 June 1971
Life In Nature, begins: 24 Apr 1971
Life-saving Society: 21 Nov 1970
Lifts - safety: 5 Feb 1972
Light Brigade. Charge of: 5 June 1971
Light bulbs: 16 Jan 1971
Light gas: 1 Jan 1971
Lighthouses: 8 May, 20 Mar 1971
Lighthouses, British: 4 Dec 1971
Lighthouses, Egypt: 14 Aug 1971; 12 Dec 1970
Lighting: 12 Dec 1970
Lighting, home: 2 Jan 1971
Lighting, street: 26 Dec 1970; 2 Jan 1971
Lightning: 16 Oct 1971
Limerick: 6 June 1970
Lincoln, Abraham: 29 May 1971. 19 Dec 1970
Lincoln's Inn: 17 Oct 1970
Lindbergh, Charles: 15, 22 May 1971
Linseed oil: 10 Oct 1970
Lions: 12 June 1971; 31 Oct 1970
Lira de Braccio: 30 Jan 1971
Liszt, Franz: 26 Sep 1970; 24. July 1971
Lister, Joseph: 3 Apr 1971
Little Big Horn, Battle of: 27 Feb, 19 June 1971
Little Tern: 18 July 1970
Liverpool & Manchester Railway: 11 Sep 1971
Livery Companies: 12 Feb 1972
Livingstone. David: 16 Jan, 25 Dec 1971
Lizard, Frilled: 27 Mar 1971
Sand: 27 Feb 1971
Llangollen, Wales: 23 Jan 1971
Lloyd, Harold: 23 Jan 1971
Lloyd, Selwyn: 25 Sep 1971
Lloyd Wright, Frank: 16 Oct 1971
Lloyd's Insurance Company: 27 Nov 1971
Locomotives: 27 Mar 1971
Locomotives, Great Western: 16 Jan 1971
Loire River: 2 Jan 1971
Lollards: 2 Jan 1971
London Blitz: 4 Sep 1971
London Buses: 6 Nov 1971
London, Great Fire of: 28 Aug 1971; 1 Jan 1972
London, Tower of: 24 Apr, 24 July, 30 Jan 1971
Longbow: 13 Mar 1971
Longfellow, Henry: 25 July 1970; 20 Feb 1971
Longmoor Military Railway: 31 July 1971
Long Parliament: 13 Mar 1971
Long-tailed Cock: 20 Feb 1971
Lord Mayor of London: 12 Feb 1971
Lord Mayor, First: 19 June 1971
Lord Mayor's Show: 10 Apr 1971
Lord's Cricket Ground: 20 Mar 1971
Lorna Doone: 31 Oct 1970
Louis, Duke of Orleans: 24 July 1971
Louis XIV: 19 June, 25 Sep 1971
Louis XVI: 15 Jan 1972
Louis XVII: 9 Jan 1971
Lourdes: 6 Feb 1971
Love, Nat: 11 Sep 1971
Loved Ones, begins: 1 May 1971
Lower Nez Perce Indians: 13 Feb 1971
Lualaba River: 16 Jan 1971
Lubbe, van der: 1 May 1971
Lubin, David: 11 Sep 1971
Lucas, Charles David: 19 June 1971
Luciano, Charles: 31 July 1971
Lucknow, Siege of: 30 Jan 1971
Luftwaffe: 5 June 1971
Lumiere: 3 Apr 1971
Lumphanan Peel, Scotland: 26 June 1971
Lunardi: 11 Sep 1971
Lusitania, sinking of: 23 Jan 1971
Lute: 2 Jan 1971
Luther Martin excommunication: 2 Jan 1971
Lykes Brothers: 29 Jan 1972
Lynn, Vera: 1 May 1971
Lyons, France: 2 Jan 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# M

Macaronis: 29 Aug 1970
MacArthur, Captain John: 11 Sep, 11 Dec, 13 Feb 1971
Macbeth (King): 26 June 1971
Macaulay, Thomas: 10 Apr 1971
MacDonald. Flora: 8 Jan 1972
Macdonald, Hector: 26 Feb 1972
Macedonians: 13 Nov 1971
MacGregor, Robert: 26 Dec 1970
Machiavelli, Niccolo: 1 May, 19 June 1971
Machines: 2 Oct 1971
Machines vs. Humans: 2 Oct 1971
Maclaren, Archie: 6 Mar 1971
Mafia, the: 31 July 1971
Magdala battle of: 10 Apr 1971
Magdalen College, Oxford: 5 June 1971
Magna Carta: 12 Feb 1972; 12 June 1971
Maize - Brazil: 2 Jan 1971
Makarios, Archbishop: 20 Feb 1971
Malachite: 1 Jan 1972
Malakoff, Crimea: 26 June 1971
Malaya independence: 28 Aug 1971
Mali, West Africa: 13 Mar 1971
Malpaquet, battle of: 4 Sep 1971
Malta: 12 Feb 1972; 13 Nov 1971
Man in the Iron Mask, ends: 18 Sep 1971
Manchester: 22 Jan 1972
Manchester City Cup Final, 1956: 9 Jan 1971
Manchester United F.T crash: 26 June 1971
Mango Tree: 1 May 1971
Mantis Praying: 20 Mar 1971
Mao: 11 July 1970
Maoris: 2 Oct 1971
Map makers: 2 Jan 1971
Map-making, begins: 31 Oct 1970
Marat, Jean Paul: 14 Nov 1970; 6 Nov 1971
Marathon: 3 Oct 1970
Marathon, Olympic Games: 17 July 1971
Mar of Chinese children: 15. Jan 1972
Marciano. Rocky: 29 Jan 1972
Maria Theresa Queen of Hungary: 23 Oct 1971
Maria Theresa of Austria 4 Sep 1971
Marie Antoinette: 15 Aug 1970
Marienburg Castle: 18 Sep 1971
Mariner 9: 7 Aug 1971
Mark Anthony: 13 Mar, 31 July 1971; 29 Jan 1972
Marlborough, Duke of: 21 Aug 1971
Marlborough, Duke & Duchess of: 18 July 1970
Marlowe, Christopher: 29 May 1971
Marmoset: 13 June 1970
Marryat, Captain Frederick: 3 July 1971
Mars: 7 Aug 1971
Marsh Harrier: 1 Aug 1970
Marshall, J.W.: 23 Jan 1971
Marsilion, King: 17, 31 July, 7, 21 Aug 1971
Martello Towers: 20 Mar 1971
Martyrs: 26 Dec 1970; 1 May 1971
Marx, Karl: 16 Oct 1971
Mary, Henry VIII's sister: 17 Oct 1970
Mary, Queen of Scots: 11 Sep, 16 Jan, 13 Nov, 10 Apr, 14 Aug 1971
Maserati cars: 20 Nov 1971
Massacre at Amrista, India: 24 Apr 1971
Mawson, Douglas: 12 June 1971
Maxmilian, Archduke: 19 Feb 1972
Maximilian (Mexico): 4 Sep 1971
Maxwell, Gavin: 10 Apr 1971
Mayday distress call: 5 Sep 1970; 18 Dec 1971
Mayenne, battle of: 13 Nov 1971
Mayne, Sir Richard: 15 Jan 1972
Mayor, Lord: 24 Oct 1970
Mazarin. Jules: 10 July 1971
McCormack. John: 7 Nov 1970
McKinley, Frank: 4 Sep 1971
McLintock. Frank: 26 June 1971
Medici, Catherine de: 9 Jan, 6 Nov 1971
Medici Family: 28 Aug 1971
Medicine: 3 Oct 1970
Medicine - dentistry: 6 Feb 1971
Medieval family life: 23 Jan 1971
Medusa: 14 Aug 1971
Meinertshagen, Colonel: 28 Aug 1971
Malan 'Sailor': 13 Nov 1971
Melbourne: 28 Aug 1971
Meleager and Althaea: 21 Aug 1974
Menuhin, Yehudin: 17 Apr 1971
Merchant ships: 31 Oct 1970
Mercury: 1 Aug 1970
'Mercury': 1 May 1971
Mercury project: 19 June 1971
Merlin: 1 Jan 1972
Merrie England: 24 July 1971
Mersey Tunnel: 13 June 1970
Mesopotamia: 6 Nov 1971; 29 Jan 1972
Messerschmitt: 29 May, 18 Sep, 4 Dec 1971
Meteorites: 21 Aug 1971
Methane gas: 5 Sep 1970
Metropolitan Railway: 29 May 1971
Mexico: 4 July 1970
Mexico - American invasion: 5 Feb 1972
Mexico City falls: 5 Feb 1972
Mexico - revolution: 22 May 1971; 1 Jan, - 11 Mar 1972
Michelangelo: 26 Feb 1972; 27 Feb 1971
Michilin Brothers: 2 Oct 1971
Microelectronics: 20 Feb 1971
Microscope, electron: 9 Jan 1971
Middle East: 3 Oct 1970
Middle Temple: 3 Oct 1970
Midge: 5 June 1971
Midmar Castle: 26 June 1971
Mighty Monarchs, begins: 25 Sep 1971
Migot, Andre: 5 June 1971
Milestones: 1 May 1971
Milking machines: 20 Mar 1971
Milkman: 24 Apr 1971
Millais, John Everett: 5 Dec 1970
Milner, Alfred: 20 Mar 1971
Miners' Lamp: 12 Feb 1972
Miners - Child: 19 Feb 1972
Mining disaster 1877: 8 May 1971
Mining - accident prevention: 27 Mar 1971
Minos, King: 1 Jan 1972
Minos: 17 Apr 1971
Minotaur: 20 June 1970; 17 Apr 1971; 1 Jan 1972
Miocene Age - beasts: 15 May 1971
Missiles, Air: 26 June 1977
Missiles: 3 Apr 1971
Mississippi: 26 Sep 1970
Mitchell, Edgar Dean: 2 Jan 1971
Mistletoe: 26 Dec 1970
Mobile Bay, storming of: 31 July 1971
Mogul Emperor - last: 16, Jan 1971
Mogul Empire: 26 June 1971
Mohammed: 23 Oct, 5 June 1971
Mohawk: 9 Jan 1971
Mole-Cricket: 20 Feb 1971
Moliere: 19 June, 25 Sep, 13 Feb 1971
Mollison, James Allan: 29 May 1971
Mollusc - Glaucus Atlanticus: Mar 1971
Monaco Grand Prix: 14 Nov 1970
Mongol Empire: 6 Nov 1971
Mongols: 27 Nov 1971
Mons, Angel of: 19 Dec 1970
Monsoons: 18 Dec 1971
Monsters: 24 July 1971
Monster, Mann Hill Beach: 9 Jan 1971
Montagu, Ewan: 21 Aug 1971
Mont Blanc Tunnel: 23 Oct 1971
Montcalm, Marquis de: 10 July 1971
Montelimar: 23 Jan 1971
Montfort, Simon de: 31 July, 16 Jan 1971
Montgolfier Brothers: 29 May 1971
Mortgolfier, E & J: 1971
Montgomery, Bernard Law: 6 June 1970; 31 July, 2, 16 Oct 1971
Montreal: 4 Sep, 23 Oct 1971
Moon cars: 6 Mar 1971
Moon landing: 17 July, 19 June 1971
Moon mission: 2 Jan 1971
Moon mission, Apollo 15: 6 Nov 1971
Moon rocks: 15, 22 Jan 1972
Moon vehicles: 24 Oct 1970
Moore, Sir John: 21 Aug, 9 Jan 1971
Moorish kingdoms: 17 Apr 1971
Moors: 17 Apr 1971
Moors' invasion of Spain: 30 Oct 1971
More, Sir Thomas: 19 Sep 1970; 6 Feb 1971
Morelos, Jose Maria: 8 Jan 1972
Moriarty, Professor: 24 July 1971
Mormons: 17 July 1971; 19 Feb 1972
Morocco: 24 Apr 1971
Moropus (Prehistoric): 27 June 1970
Morris, William: 26 Feb 1972; 4 Sep 1971
Morris Minors: 13 Nov 1971
Morse code: 27 Nov 1971; 1 Aug 1970
Morse, Samuel: 27 Nov, 24 Apr 1971
Morthouses: 3 July 1971
Moscow: 5 Feb 1972
Moscow. Retreat from: 25 Dec, 18 Sep 1971
Moses: 12 Feb 1972; 24 Apr 1971
Mosque tomb: 2 Jan 1971
Mosques: 21 Aug 1971
Moslems: 5 June 1971
Moss. Stirling: 20 June, 11 July 1970; 11 Sep, 21 Aug 1971
Moth: 8 May 1971
Mother Shipton Moth: 13 Mar 1971
Motor cars: 26 Sep 1970; 6 Feb 1971
Motor Car, History of: 2 Oct, - 18 Dec 1971
Motor Cycle: 27 June 1970; 2 Jan 1971
Motor races - world: 24 July 1971
Motor Racing: 14 Nov, 22 Aug 1970
Motor racing, Brooklands: 3 July 1971
Mountbatten of Burma: 9 Jan, 27 Nov 1971
Mountains, Rocky: 6 Mar 1971
Mountain, Table: 20 Mar 1971
Mounties, Scout: 26 June 1971
Mouse, marsupial: 20 Mar 1971
Mouth: 2 Jan 1971
Mozart: 27 Feb 1971
Mudskipper: 20 Mar 1971
Mulberry, Operation: 19 Sep 1970
Murder Most Foul: 25 Sep, - 27 Nov 1971
Murdock, William: 1 Jan 1972
Murphy, Dervla: 3 July 1971
Murray, Harry - New Guinea: 17 July 1971
Music: 15 Aug, 12, 19 Sep 1970
Music, Folk Festival: 23 Jan 1971
Music - Foster: 20 Feb 1971
Musicians: 10 Oct 1970
Mussels: 5 Dec 1970
Mussolini: 11 Sep, 24 Apr, 22 May 1971
Mutiny, Indian - Cawnpore: 16 Jan 1971
Mutiny - aftermath: 6 Feb 1971
Myceneans: 8 Jan 1972

# -------------------------------------------
# N

Names, ancestry: 7 Aug 1971
Namibia: 26 Sep 1970
Nansen, Fridtjof: 5 Sep 1970; 8 May, 11 Dec 1971
Nantes, Edict of: 13 Nov 1971
Napoleon: 5 Dec, 11 June 1970; 7 Aug, 28 Mar 1971
Napoleon, abdication: 10 Apr 1971
Napoleon, in Spain: 21 Aug 1971
Napoleon, retreat from Moscow: 18 Sep, 25 Dec 1971
Napoleon, Teutonic Knights: 18 Sep 1971
Napoleon III - Mexico: 12, 19 Feb 1972
Napier, Sir Charles: 7 Aug 1971
Napier Railton: 27 Nov 1971
Nasser, Gamel Abdel: 24 July, 2 Jan 1971
Nationality: 25 Dec 1971
Nautilus submarine: 16 Jan, 26 June 1971
Navvies, railway: 12 - 26 Dec 1970
Nazis: 1 May 1971
Nazis, Spanish Civil War: 14 Aug 1971
Nebuchadrezzar I: 29 Jan 1972
Nefertiti, Tomb of: 27 Nov 1971
Nehru, Jawaharlal: 27 Mar 1971
Nehru: 17 Oct 1970
Nelson, Admiral: 20 Mar, 10 Apr 1971
Nelson, Copenhagen: 27 Mar 1971
Nelson's Column: 19 Feb 1972
Neolithic Period: 23 Oct 1971
Nero, Emperor: 22 May 1971
Nettles, stinging: 12 Dec 1970
New Amsterdam: 4 Sep 1971
Newcastle: 19 Dec 1970
Newgate Prison: 12 Feb 1972; 23 Jan 1971
New Guinea: 6 Mar 1971
Newmarket races: 3 Apr 1971
New Scotland Yard: 2 Oct 1971
Newsletters: 4 Sep 1971
Newspapers, story of: 4 Sep 1971
Newton, Arthur: 18 Sep 1971
New York: 26 Sep 1970
New York Harbour: 12 Feb 1972
New Zealand: 2 Oct 1971; 18 July 1970
Nicholas II: 18 Sep 1971
Nicholas II Assassination: 10 July 1971
Niger River: 19 Dec 1970; 26 June 1971
Nigeria - independence: 19 June 1971
Nightingale, Florence: 12 Dec 1970; 8, 22, 29 May 1971
Nihil, Paul - athlete: 24 July 1971
Nile River: 14 Aug, 20 Nov 1971; 10 Oct 1970
Nile River Basin: 19 June 1971
Nile River, Battle of: 31 July 1971
Nile River, Search for: 10 July 1971
Nile River, Upper: 13 Mar 1971
Nile River, White, Blue: 6 Feb 1971
Nimes, France: 30 Jan 1971
Ninevah: 22 Jan 1972
'Nimrod' 1: May 1971
Nimrod aircraft: 21 July 1971
Nitric acid: 1 Aug 1970
Noah's Ark: 8 May 1971
Noise: 25 Dec 1971; 1 Jan: 1972
Nomeus fish: 5 Dec 1970
Nordic warriors: 2 Oct 1971
Norfolk, Duke of: 24 July 1971
Norfolk - Thatchers: 9 Jan 1971
Norman, Desmond: 2 Oct 1971
Norman family life: 16 Jan 1971
Norman Invasion of Britain: 16 Oct 1971
Normandy, Invasion of: 29 May 1971
North America - animals: 17 July 1971
Northcliffe (A. Harmsworth): 11 Sep 1971
North Pole: 5 Sep, 3 Oct, 17 Oct 1970
North West Frontier (series ends): 6 June 1970
North West Passage: 12 Sep, 10 Oct 1970; 5 June 1971
Northumbrian border raids: 3 Apr 1971
Norwich Cathedral: 16 Jan 1971
Norwich Norfolk: 16 Jan 1971
Nostradamus - prophet: 25 Dec 1971
Notre Dame: 5 Dec 1970
Nottingham: 30 Jan 1971
Nowotny, Walter: 15 May 1971
Nuclear missiles: 27 Mar 1971
Nuclear power: 15 Aug 1970; 27 Feb, 17 July 1971
Nuffield, Lord (Morris): 4 Sep 1971
Nuremburg trials: 1 May 1971
Nuthatch: 7 Aug 1971
Nyerere, Julius: 6 Mar 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# O

Oak tree: 20 Feb 1971
Oarfish: 5 Sep 1970
Oates: 16 Jan 1971
Observer, The: 11 Sep 1971
Oceanography: 6 Feb, 11 Sep 1971
Octavian Caesar: 31 July 1971
Octopus: 3 Apr 1971
Odysseys: 13 June 1970
Qdysseus and Aeolus: 21 Aug 1971
Offenbach, Jacques: 19 June 1971
O'Flanagan, Dr. Kevin: 18 Sep 1971
O'Hara-Burke, Robert: 21 Aug 1971
Oil: 5, 12, 19 Dec 1970; 25 Dec 1971
Oil, Persia: 21 Aug 1971
Oil pollution, 14 Aug 1971; 20 June 1970
Okapi: 19 June 1971
Old Bailey: 9 Oct 1971
Oligocene Age - beasts: 8 May 1971
Olympic Stadium: 1 Jan 1972
Omnibus Company: 22 May 1971
On The Run, begins: 4 Dec 1971
Opal: 1 Jan 1972
Ontario - Galt: 2 Jan 1971
Opel, Fritz von: 25 July 1970
Opera - Gilbert and Sullivan: 3 July 1971
Oppossum, Common: 12 June 1971
Orange Free State: 6 Nov 1971
Orange, France: 30 Jan 1971
Orchids: 6 June 1970
Order of St John: 13 Nov 1971
Organ: 5 Dec 1970
Organ, Steam: 20 Mar 1971
Orleans, France: 7 Aug 1971
Oryx, White: 2 Jan 1971
Osaka, Japan: 4 Sep 1971
Osborne House: 8 Jan 1972
Osiris and Isis: 20 Nov 1971
Ostriches: 7 Aug 1971
Oswald, Lee Harvey: 12 Dec 1970
Otters: 27 Feb, 13 Mar 1971
Otis, Elisha: 5 Feb 1972
Ottoman Empire: 23 Oct, 11 Dec 1971
Ottowas - Indian tribe: 23 Jan 1971
Our Drifting World, ends: 7 Aug 1971
Our Dumb Friends: 8 May 1971
Our Island Fortress: 27 Feb 1971 - 3 Apr 1971
Owens, Perry Sheriff: 17 July 1971
Owen, Richard: 31 July 1971
Owl: 4 July 1970
Oxford University: 5 Feb 1972
Oxford University, Queen's College: 24 Apr 1971
Oxpeckers: 5 Dec 1970

# -------------------------------------------
# P

Pahlavi, Shah of Persia: 27 Feb 1971
Paine, Thomas: 23 Jan 1971
Paint, Story of: 31 July 1971
Pakistan, East - floods: 1 May 1971
Pallemaille: 28 Aug 1971
Palm Springs: 10 Apr 1971
Palmerston, Lord: 9 Oct 1971
Panama Canal: 14 Aug 1971
Panda, Giant: 28 Nov 1970. 19 June 1971
Pangolin anteater: 1971
Pankhurst, Dame Christabel: 18 Sep, 7 Aug 1971
Pankhurst, Mrs E.: 7 Aug 1971
Pantheon: 1 Jan 1972
Pantomimes: 25 Dec 1971
Papaw Tree: 1 May 1971
Parachutes: 12 Sep, 27 June 1970
Parachutes, Early: 27 Mar, 1 May 1971
Paradise, Bird of: 27 Mar 1971
Paraguay: 27 June 1970
Paralla cargo carrier: 20 Nov 1971
Paratroops: 1 May 1971
Paris: 19 Feb 1972
Paris, German occupation: 12 June 1971
Paris, Siege of: 18 Sep 1971
Park, Mungo: 26 June 1971
Park keeper: 10 Apr 1971
Parliament: 2 Jan 1971
Parliament, Houses of: 6 Nov 1971
Parliament, Isle of Man: 18 Dec 1971
Parliament, Long: 13 Mar 1971
Parliament, Opening of: 25 Sep 1971
Parliamentary reporting: 4 Sep 1971
Parr, Catherine: 4 Sep 1971
Parsons, Charles: 6 Nov 1971
Passports: 29 May 1971
Pasteur, Louis: 19 Feb 1972
Patagonia: 25 July 1970
Path, Bright: 23 Jan 1971
Pathe, Charles: 18 Sep 1971
Pato sport: 11 Sep 1971
Pattle, Pat: 13 Nov 1971
Patton, George C: 25 Sep 1971
'Paulette' - Anne Marie Walters: 4 Dec 1971
Paulham, Louis: 15 May 1971
Pauper uprising: 9 Jan 1971
Paxton, Sir Joseph: 22 Jan 1972
Payne, Major William: 8 May 1971
Peace, Charles: 2 Oct 1971
Pea-crab: 5 Dec 1970
Pearl Harbour, attack: 7 Aug 1971
Peary, Robert: 7 Oct 1970
Peel, Sir Robert: 12 Feb 1972
Peelers - Police Force: 12 Feb 1972
Peep shows: 19 June 1971
Peerage, English: 3 July 1971
Peking: 26 Feb 1972
Pelican,brown: 13 Mar 1971
Penal colony, Australia: 17 Apr 1971
'Penguin' missile: 8 May 1971
Penicillin: 6 Mar 1971
Peninsular War: 9 Jan 1971
Penn, William: 27 Feb 1971
Pennell, Dr Theodore: 18 Sep 1971
Pennies: 8 May 1971
Pennsylvania: 27 Feb 1971
Penny Farthing: 7 Aug 1971
Pentagon: 5 June 1971
Peppin III: 18 Sep 1971
Perceval, Spencer: 21 Nov 1970
Perch: 10 July 1971
Peregrine: 18 July 1970; 5 June 1971
Perouges, France: 2 Jan 1971
Persia (Iran): 21 Aug 1971
Persia, Arabian invasion: 23 Oct 1971
Persia, Shah: 27 Feb 1971
Perth, Australia: 17 Apr 1971
Peru: 4 July 1970
Petain, Henri: 17 Apr 1971
Petain, Marshal: 2 Jan 1971
Peter the Great: 29 May, 18 Sep 1971; 5 Feb 1972
Peterloo Massacre: 14 Aug 1971; 22 Jan 1972
Peters, Jim: 2 Jan 1971
Petra: 3 Oct 1970
Petrol Engines: 6 Nov 1971
Tank Engines: 6 Nov 1971
Petroleum: 25 July 1970
Petrol pumps: 13 Nov 1971
Pets - cemetery: 1 May 1971
Pets, Memorials: 8 May 1971
Phaedra and Ariadne: 1 Jan 1972
Phantom II: 23 Oct 1971
Pharoahs: 20 Nov, 18 Dec 1971
Pharos of Alexandria: 14 Aug 1971
Philip the Good: 31 July 1971
Philippine Islands: 29 Aug 1970
Philip II, Spain: 26 Feb, 13 Mar, 14 Aug 1971
Phonograph: 8 May 1971
Photographers - War: 18 Sep 1971
Photography: 3 Apr 1971
Phrixus and Helle: 21 Aug 1971
Picasso, Pablo: 22 Jan 1972
Piccadilly, 144: 18 Sep 1971
Picton, Thomas: 13 Nov 1971
Pierce, Captain: 2 Jan 1971
Pig, heaviest: 15 May 1971
Pigeons, racing: 9 Jan 1971
Pilgrim Fathers: 5 - 20 Sep 1970; 8 May, 4 Sep 1971
Pilgrim's Progress: 23 Jan, 13 Feb 1971
Pilots, airline: 10 Oct 1970
Pilsudski, Joseph: 26 June 1971
Pint, Cuckoo: 24 Apr 1971
Pintail: 11 July 1970
Pinkerton, Allan, Robert and William: 1 Jan 1972
Pioneers of Progress, begins: 21 Aug 1971
Pioneers of the Sea, ends: 1 May 1971
Pit Boy: 19 Feb 1972
Pitt, William 'the Younger': 22 May 1971
Pitt, elder and younger: 24 Oct 1970
Pizarru, Francisco: 19 June 1971
Place, Francis: 11 Dec 1971
Plant Bug: 6 Mar 1971
Plants: 12, 19, 26 Sep, 3 Oct 1970
Plassey, Battle of: 19 June 1971
Platt, Jonas: 20 Sep 1970
Platypus, Duckbill: 12 June 1971
Play - Putting on a: 20 Feb 1971
Plimsoll Line: 14 Nov 1970
Pliny the Elder: 21 Aug 1971
Pliny the Younger: 21 Aug 1971
Pliocene Age - animals: 22 May, 1921
Plover: 28 Nov 1970
Plumbing: 7 Nov 1970
Plutonium: 5 Feb 1970
Po River: 16 Jan 1971
P&O Liners: 3 Oct 1970
Pogo: 9 Jan 1971
Poitiers, Battle of: 10 July 1971
Poland: 6 June 1970
Polar bear: 9 Jan, 4 Sep 1971
Polaris submarine: 23 Oct 1971
Polecat: 6 Mar 1971
Police: 21 Nov 1970; 27 Mar 1971
Policewomen: 27 Mar 1971
Polo, Marco: 6 Nov 1971; 26, Feb 1972
Poltava, Battle of: 3 July 1971
Pollution: 26 Sep - 10 Oct, 26 Dec 1970
Pollution, Prevention of: 12 June 1971
Pompadou. President: 31 July 1971
Pompeii: 2 Oct 1971
Poms - Australian name for English: 6 Nov 1971
Pontecorvo, Professor: 27 Feb 1971
Pontiac - Ottowa Indian Chief: 23 Jan 1971
Pony Express, America: 20 Mar 1971
Pope Alexander VI: 14 Aug 1971
Poppies: 21 Nov 1970
Porsche, Ferdinand: 12 June 1971
Portland Bill: 8 Aug 1970
Port of Spain: 13 June 1970
Port Said: 9 Oct 1971
Port Talbot - steel: 20 Nov 1971
Portugal: 15 Aug 1970
Portuguese man-of-war: 5 Dec 1970
Postmen: 13 Mar 1971
Post Office Tower: 1 Aug 1970; 24 July 1971
Potter, Beatrix: 4 Sep 1971
Potter Wasp: 6 Mar 1971
Pottery, ancient: 8 May 1971
Pottery, Making of: 15 May 1971
Pottery, Medieval: 8 May 1971
Pottery Parade, begins: 8 May 1971
Potts, Jerry: 26 June 1971
Powder Monkey: 26 Feb 1972
Prague - Jerome: 2 Jan 1971
Prairie Dog: 12 Dec 1970
Prehistoric Australia: 5 June 1971
Prehistoric Man: 25 Sep, 23 Oct 1971
Prehistoric Remains: 18 July 1970
Press Association: 11 Sep 1971
Prester John: 15 May 1971
Prime Minister - Walpole: 17 July 1971
Primitive Homes: 27 Feb, - 10 Apr 1971
Primula: 28 Nov 1970
Prince Albert's Cairn: 12 June 1971
Prince Charles Investiture: 19 June 1971
Princes in the Tower: 20 Nov 1971
Princess Margaret: 14  Aug 1971
Printing machines: 17 Apr 1971
Printing, Rotary: 11 Sep 1971
Printing Works: 28 Aug 1971
Prisons: 17 Apr 1971
Procoptodon: 12 June 1971
Prohibition, USA: 9 Jan, 22 May 1971
Prophecy: 25 Dec 1971
Protoceratops: 7 Aug 1971
Prudhoe: 10 Apr 1971
Prussia, Emperor: 30 Jan 1971
Puffin bird: 20 Feb 1971
Pullman, G. M: 27 Feb 1971
Punic wars: 3 Apr 1971
Puritan era - End of: 24 July 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# Q

Qara tribe: 17 Oct 1970
Quakers: 25 July 1970; 9 Jan, 27 Feb 1971
Quebec, storming of: 10 July 1971
Queen's Crown: 22 May 1971
Queen's Flight: 29 May 1971
Queen's Royal Regiment: 11 Sep 1971
Queens that ruled the Seas: 10 Apr 1971
Quincey, Thomas de: 6 Mar 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# R

Rabelais, Francois: 16 Jan 1971
Raby Castle: 3 Aug 1970
Racing car, rocket-powered: 25 July 1970
Raccoons: 13 Mar 1971
Radar: 7 Aug 1971. Automatic 21 Aug 1971
Radio Astronomy 1970
Radio News: 18 Sep,1971
Radium: 7 Aug 1971
R.A.F.: 30 Jan 1971
RAF disaster Hants: 9 Jan 1971
Raglan, Lord: 15 May 1971
Rail disaster: 10 Apr 197
Rail disaster, 1876: 27 Mar 1971
Rail disaster, 1896 13 Mar 1971
Rail disaster, 1903: 3 Apr 1971
Rail disaster, 1909: 20 Mar 1971
Railways abroad: 2 Jan 1971
Rail safety: 30 Oct 1971
Railways: 1 May, 3, 10, 17 Apr 1971; 17 Oct 1970
Locomotives:$
  Austrian Federal: 6 Nov 1971
  Baltimore and Ohio: 8 Jan 1972
  Bengal State: 5 Feb 1972
  Caledonian: 13 June, 19 Dec 1970
  Ceinture: 18 Dec 1971
  Central Pacific: 8 May 1971
  French National 2 Oct 1971
  German Federal: 13 Nov 1971; 15 Jan 1972
  Glyn Valley: 20 June 1970
  Great Central: 25 July 1970
  Great Eastern: 17 Apr, 12 June, 17 July 1971; 26 Sep 1970
  Great North of Scotland: 6 June 1970
  Great Northern: 3 July 1971
  Great Southern and Western: 26 Dec 1970
  Great Western: 3 Oct, 27 June, 8 Aug 1970; 15 Aug, 6 Mar, 3 Apr 1971
  Italian State: 11 Dec, 20 Nov 1971; 19 Feb 1972
  Lancashire and Yorkshire: 4 July, 12 Sep 1970; 1 May, 26 June 1971
  Ljungstrom Turbine: 12 Feb 1972
  London, Brighton and South Coast: 11 July 1970; 10 Apr, 13 Mar, 20 Feb, 7 Aug 1971
  London, Midland and Scottish Railway: 31 Oct, 5 Dec 1970; 22 May 1971
  London North Eastern 25 July, 17 Oct 1970; 19 June, 30 Jan, 8 May 1971
  London and North Western: 10 Oct 1970; 20 Mar, 24 Apr 11 Sep 1971
  London & S.E.: 6 Feb 1971
  London & South Western: 13 Feb, 5 June, 24 July, 13 Feb 1971
  Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire: 22 Aug 1970; 15 May 1971
  Metropolitan District: 21 Nov 1970
  Midland Railway: 18 Sep, 23 Jan 1971
  Mount Washington, 29 Jan 1972
  North British: 28 Nov, 12 Dec 1970
  North Eastern: 19 Sep, 14 Nov 1970; 14, 28 Aug 1971
  Paris-Orleans Railway: 4 Dec 1971
  Portuguese National Railways: 16 Oct 1971
  Runcorn Gap: 27 Mar 1971
  Somerset and Dorset: 9 Jan 1971
  South Coast: 18 July 1970
  South Eastern & Chatham: 7 Nov, 5 Sep 1970
  Southern Railway: 10 July 1971
  St. Helens: 27 Mar 1971
  Swiss Federal: 30 Oct 1971; 26 Feb 1972
  Tom Thumb railway: 25 Sep 1971
  Union Pacific: 22 Jan 1972
  Vale railway: 24 Oct 1970
Railway brakes: 30 Oct 1971
Railway brakes, Conveyor trains: 25 Sep 1971
Railway brakes, Diesels: 11 Dec 1971
Railway brakes, Locomotives, Kestrel: 25 Sep 1971
Railway brakes, Locomotives, 'Mallard': 24 Apr 1971
Railway brakes, Locomotives, Stephenson's: 2 Oct 1971
Railway brakes, Locomotives, Stepney diesel: 17 Apr 1971
Railway navvies: 12 Dec 1970; 2 Jan 1971
Railway navvies, First underground: 6 Mar 1971
Railway navvies, Travelling: 13 Feb 1971
Railway navvies, Workers: 1 May 1971
Rajahs, White: 12 June 1971
Raleigh, Sir Walter: 26 Sep 1970; 14, 24 Apr, 8 May 1971
Rameses II, Pharaoh: 24 Apr 1971
Rameses III: 20 Nov 1971
Ramillies, Battle of: 22 May 1971
Ramsey, William: 8 Sep 1970
Rainier, Prince: 19 Feb 1972
Rare breeds: 13 Feb, -  20 Mar 1971
Rarest butterfly: 16 Jan 1971
Rasputin: 26 Sep 1970
Rat, black: 6 Mar 1971
Rationing, in Britain: 5 June 1971
Ravens: 30 Jan 1971
Rawson, Mike: 7 Aug 1971
Ray fish: 30 Jan 1971
Rebel - Bevan: 30 Jan 1971
Recorder: 23 Jan 1971
Red Arrow Team: 14 Nov 1970
Red Cross: 15 May, 21 Aug 1971
Red Cross, Story of: 24 Apr 1971
Red Cross, World War II: 1 May 1971
Red Deer: 21 Nov 1970
Red Sea, Moses: 24 Apr 1971
Red Shirts - Garibaldi: 27 Nov 1971
Referees: 16 Jan 1971
Reformation English: 16 Jan 1971
Regazzoni, Clay, 11 Dec 1971
Reichstag: 1 May 1971
Reichstag, Burnt 20 Feb 1971
Reign of Terror: 26 Feb 1972
Relativity, Law of: 17 July 1971
Rembrandt: 12 June 1971
Remora: 12 Dec 1970
Reno gang: 1 Jan 1972
Restoration, The: 24 July 1971
Reuter: 11 Sep 1971
Reuter, Admiral von: 19 June 1971
Revolution, 1905: 16 Jan 1971
Revolution, French: 15 May 1971
Rhesus of Thrace: 21 Aug 1971
Rhine: 5 Sep 1970
Rhodes, Cecil: 3 July 1971
Rhone River, begins; 5 Dec 1970; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Jan, 6 Feb 1971
Rich, Richard: 16 Jan 1971
Richard the Lionheart: 6 June 1970; 4 Dec, 3 Apr 1971
Richard II; 24 July, 15 May, 13 Feb 1971
Richard III: 20 Nov, 21 Aug 1971
Richelieu, Cardinal: 4 Sep, 7 Aug 1971
Rickenbacker, Edward: 24 Apr 1971
Richthofen, von: 17 Apr 1971
Ricotti torpedo car: 30 Oct 1971
Rijks Museum, Amsterdam: 12 June 1971
Rindt, Jochen: 23 Jan, 11 Dec 1971
Rio de Janeiro: 27 June 1970; 8 Jan 1972
Rio Grande. 28 Mar 1971
Rio Grande, Animals: 20 Mar 1971
'The Rivals', Sheridan: 3 Apr 1971
River Police Boats: 2 Oct 1971
Thames: 27 Nov 1971
Rivers - silting: 27 Mar 1971
Road bollards: 24 July 1971
Pollution: 11 Sep 1971
Robespierre: 26 Feb 1972
Robin, bird: 16 Jan 1971
Robin Hood: 7 Nov 1970
Robinson Crusoe 24 Apr 1971
Robinson, William: 28 Aug 1971
Amy Robsart (Dudley's wife): 25 Sep 1971
Rochemaure, France: 23 Jan 1971
Rockets: 24 Oct 1970
Rocket motor cars: 4 Dec 1971
Planes: 21 Aug 1971
Powered racing car: 25 July 1970
Rockwell Aircraft Co: 1971
Rodeos: 24 Apr 1971
Rodney, sea admiral: 10 Apr 1971
Roeber, Ria: 2 Jan 1971
Rogers, Will, 6 Feb 1971
Rokeby (Lord). 15 Aug 1970
Roland, Count: 10, 17 July 1971
Roland, Song of: 7, 21 Aug 1971
Rolls-Royce: 23 Oct, 31 July 1971
Rolls, Charles Stewart: 31 July, 23 Oct 1971
Roman Emperor - Servius: 9 Jan 1971
Roman Empire: 29 Aug 1970
Roman Empire, Heating: 7 Nov 1970
Roman Empire, Holidays: 17 July 1971
Roman Empire, Invasion of Britain: 21 Aug, 9 Oct 1971
Roman Empire, in Britain: 27 Feb 1971
Romanovs: 18 Sep 1971
Rome: 1 Jan 1972
Rome, Burning of: 22 May 1971
Romeo, Alfa: 30 Oct 1971
Rommel, Field Marshal: 2 Oct, 31 July, 16 Oct 1971
Romney: 29 Jan 1972
Romulus and Remus: 17 Apr 1971; 1 Jan 1972
Rontgen, Wilhelm K.: 27 June 1970; 20 Mar, 7 Aug 1971; 29 Jan 1972
Rooke, Sir George: 17 July 1971
Roosa, Stuart Allen: 2 Jan 1971
Roosevelt, Franklin D.:5 June 1971
Roosevelt, Franklin D., President: 2 Jan, 30 Jan 1971
Rose, Alec: 19 June 1971
Rose, Christmas: 2 Jan 1971
Roses, Wars of: 1 May 1971
Rosetti, D.G.: 14 Aug 1971
Rougemont, Louis de: 24 Oct 1970
Rover cars: 9 Jan, 13 Nov 1971
Rowton Heath, Battle of: 9 Jan 1971
Royal Army Service Corps: 29 May 1971
Royal Courts of Justice: 28 Nov 1970
Royal Flying Doctor: 9 Oct 1971
Royal Mint: 20 Nov 1971
Royal Mounties: 23 Oct 1971
Royal River: 5 June, - 3 July 1971
Royal Sovereign Lightship: 4 Dec 1971
Royew, Sir Henry: 31 July, 23 Oct 1971
Rubens, Paul: 26 June 1971
Rubber: 14 Aug 1971; 25 July 1970
Rubbish disposal: 13 Nov 1971
Rubbish disposal, Furnace: 13 Nov 1971
Rudolph I: 4 Sep 1971
Rufus, King William: 31 July, 16 Jan 1971
Rugby Football: 11, 18 July 1970; Beginning of 3 Apr 1971
Russell, William Howard: 8, 15, 22 May, 11 Sep 1971
Russia: 1905 Revolution: 16 Jan 1971
Russia Germany treaty: 21 Aug 1971
Russia, Ivan the Terrible: 6 Feb 1972
Russia, Legends: 11 July 1970
Russia, World War II: 9 Jan 1971
Russian Revolution. 26 Sep 1970; 10 July 1971; 5 Feb 1972
Russo-Japanese War: 6 Feb, 28 Aug 1971
Rust and corrosion: 13 Nov 1971
Rutherford, Sir Ernest: 22 Jan 1972
Ruyter de: 15 May 1971
Rye: 29 Jan 1972

# -------------------------------------------
# S

Sabre-toothed tiger: 11 July 1970
Sacco and Venzetti: 23 Oct 1971
Sacre Coeur: 19 Feb 1972
Sacred Regalia: 12 Feb 1972
Sohibs, India: 6 Feb 1971
Sahib Nana: 16 Jan 1971
Sailing, Blyth: 13 Feb 1971
Sakwi, Saburo: 22 May 1971
Salamis, ancient Cyprus: 4 Dec 1971
Salazar, Antonia de Oliveira: 14 Nov 1970
Salmon breeding: 21 Nov 1970
Salo, Gasparo da: 31 July 1971
Salt Lake City: 19 Feb 1972
Salvation Army: 14 Aug, 13 Feb 1971; 15 Jan 1972
Salza, Hermann von: 4 Sep 1971
Samoyeds: 12 Sep 1970
Samuel: 12 Feb 1972
Samurai: 1 Aug 1970
San Antonio: 29 Jan 1972
Sandringham Palace: 15 Jan 1972
Sandwich: 29 Jan 1972
San Francisco: 8 May, 18 Dec 1971
San Francisco earthquake: 17 Apr 1971
Sanger, George: 19 June 1971
Santa Anna, 26 June 1971; 22, 29 Jan, 5 Feb 1972
Santa Claus: 25 Dec 1971
Santos-Dumont: 17 Apr 1971
Saracen horsemen: 28 Aug 1971
Sargent, Sir Malcolm: 24 Apr 1971
Sargon II, King: 22 Jan 1972
Sarsfield, Patrick: 7 Aug 1971
Satellites: 8 Aug 1970; 7 Jan, 18 Sep, 7 Aug 1971
Saurbronn Karl: 21 Aug 1971
Sawflies: 22 May 1971
Saxon England: 27 Nov 1971
Saxophone: 28 Nov 1970
Saxons: 6 Mar 1971
Saxons, battle of Ashdown Forest: 2 Jan 1971
Scarecrows: 27 Mar 1971
Schneider, Jacques: 8 Aug 1970
Schools: 24 Oct, 7 Nov 1970
Schouten, William: 23 Jan 1971
Schubert: 3 Oct 1970; 27 Feb 1971
Schuschnigg, Kurt von: 24 July 1971
Schweitzer, Albert: 20 Feb, 23 Oct 1971
Science: 22 Aug 1970
Science, Bunsen Burner: 27 Mar 1971
Scilly Isles: 13 Nov 1971
Scimitar Oryx: 2 Jan 1971
Score (Musical): 12 Sep 1970
Scorpion fly: 20 Feb 1971
Scorpion tank: 4 Dec 1971
Scotland, Robert Bruce: 18 Dec 1971
Scotland's Independence: 19 June 1971
Scotland Yard: 2 Oct 1971
Scots, Mary Queen of: 15 May 1971
Scots, Plot: 11 July 1970
Scott, Robert Falcon: 12 Sep 1970; 25 Dec 1971
Scott, R.F.: 16 Jan 1971
Scott, Sheila: 31 July 1971
Scott, Sir Walter: 27 Mar 1971
Scottish invasion of England: 4 Dec 1971
Scouts: 23 Jan 1971
Scrap iron: 5 Sep 1970
Scrooge: 26 Dec 1970
Sea Anemone: 28 Nov, 19 Dec 1970
Sea battle, Jutland: 27 Mar 1971
Sea-cucumber: 12 Dec 1970
Sea disaster: 13 Mar, 2 Jan 1971
Sea disaster, H M.S Cornwall: 27 Mar 1971
Sea diving: 15 May 1971
Sea fortress: 27 Mar 1971
Sea, Giant Killer waves: 26 Feb 1972
Seahorse: 23 Jan 1971
Sea navigation: 10 July 1971
Seaplane: 17 Apr, 1 May 1971
Seaside, Story of: 27 June, - 1 Aug 1970
Sebastopol, Crimean War: 5 June 1971
Sedan chairs: 3 Apr 1971
Seddon, Frederick: 5 Feb 1972
Sedgemoor, battle of: 21 Aug, 3 July 1971
Segrave, Sir Henry: 22 May, 27 Nov 1971
Seine: 17 Oct 1970
Selassie, Emperor Haile: 30 Jan, 17 July 1971
Selkirk, Alexander: 6 Feb 1971
Seneca: 9 Jan 1971
Sewing machine: 11 Sep 1971
Shackleton, Sir Ernest: 26 Dec 1970
Shaftesbury, Lord: 6 Feb 1971
Shah of Persia: 27 Feb 1971
Shakespeare, William: 17 Apr 1971
Shannon: 6 June 1970
Sharks: 19 Sep, 29 Aug 1970
Sharp, Cecil: 17 Oct 1970
Shearwater Sooty: 19 Dec 1970
Sheep - Australia: 11 Sep 1971
Sheffield - industrial: 2 Jan 1971
Shelley, P.B.: 26 Dec 1970; 6 Feb 1971
Shephard A.B.: 2 Jan 1971
Sheridan, Richard: 3 Apr 1971
Shetland ponies: 11 Dec 1971
Shiloh, battle of: 3 Apr 1971
Ships: 27 June, 11 July, 31 Oct 1970; 6 Feb, 23 Jan 1971
Ships, Cargo carriers: 20 Nov 1971
Ships, Clipper: 26 Feb 1972
Ships (famous): 20 June 1970
Ship, freight: 30 Jan 1971; 8 Aug, 5 Dec 1970
Ships (iron): 12 Sep 1970
Ships, jet engines: 22 May 1971
Ship launcher: 27 Feb 1971
Shipping lines, begins: 8 Aug 1970
Ships, Merchant: 31 Oct 1970
Ships - train transported: 21 Nov 1970
Ships - Trawlers, mini: 31 July 1971
Ships, turbine-engined: 6 Nov 1974

Ships:$
  Admiral Graf Spee: 14 Aug 1971
  Admiral Scheer: 14 Aug 1971
  Agamemnon: 31 July 1971
  Alecto: 31 July 1971
  Altmark: 13 Feb 1971
  Amsterdam: 14 Aug 1971
  Aquitania: 24 Apr 1971
  Arnold Maersk: 23 Jan 1971
  Bismarck: 14 Aug 1971
  Bismarck, Sinking of: 9 Oct 1971
  Bluebell Trawler ship: 23 Jan 1971
  Bounty: 4 Sep 1971
  Britannia: 10 Apr 1974
  British Steel - yacht: 13 Feb 1971
  Buiny: 28 Aug 1971
  Bulldog: 27 Nov 1971
  Cairngorm: 26 Feb 1972
  Campania: 17 Apr 1971
  Captain: 31 July 1971
  Challenger: 26 Feb 1972
  City of Liverpool: 10 July 1971
  Cornwall: 27 Mar 1971
  Criccieth Castle: 26 Feb 1972
  Cunard Ships: 1 May 1971
  Curacoa: 11 Sep 1971
  Cutty Sark: 26 Feb 1972
  Dart Europe ship: 30 Jan 1971
  Devastation: 31 July 1971
  Donskoi: 11 Sep 1971
  Dreadnought: 7 Aug, 27 Mar 1971
  Drummond Castle sinking: 19 Feb 1972
  Duke of York: 14 Aug 1971
  Forfarshire: 17 July 1971, 19 Dec 1970
  Fram: 11 Dec 1971
  Glatton: 3 Apr 1971
  Great Eastern (Leviathan): 30 Jan 1971
  Grosvenor wreck: 17 Apr 1971
  Hampshire: 26 Dec 1970
  Hibernia: 10 Apr 1971
  Hood: 14 Aug, 13 Mar 1971
  Kashmir: 27 Nov, 9 Jan 1971
  Kelly: 9 Jan, 27 Nov 1971
  King George V: 14 Aug 1971
  Laconia: 18 Sep 1971
  Leicestershire: 26 June 1971
  Leviathan (Great Eastern): 30 Jan 1971
  Lloydsman: 8 Jan 1972
  Lucania: 17 Apr 1971
  Lusitania: 23, 30 Jan, 1 May 1971
  Mardi Gras: 31 July 1977
  Mary Dear: 17 Oct 1970
  Matsushima: 7 Aug 1971
  Mauretania: 23 Jan, 6 Nov, 17 Apr 1971
  Mayflower: 4 Sep 1971
  Merrimac frigate: 6 Mar, 7 Aug 1971
  Monitor: 7 Aug 1971
  Nelson: 14 Aug 1971
  Northfleet: 26 Feb 1972
  Pandora: 4 Sep 1971
  Prince of Wales: 14 Aug 1971
  Prinz Eugen: 20 Feb 1971
  Pueblo: 11 Sep 1971
  Queen Elizabeth: 1 May, 6 Nov, 11 Sep 1971
  Queen Elizabeth II: 11. Sep, 1 May, 23 Oct 1971
  Queen Mary: 6 Nov, 1 May, 11 Sep 1971
  Queen of Sweden: 18 Dec 1971
  Rattler: 31 July 1971
  Rodney: 14 Aug 1971
  Royal George: 12 Dec 1970
  Royal Oak: 14 Aug 1971
  Seraph: 21 Aug 1971
  Tamerlan: 27 March. 1971
  Thermopylae: 26 Feb 1972
  Tirpitz: 11 Sep, 14 Aug 1971
  Titanic: 10 Apr 1971
  Turbinia: 6 Nov 1971
  Umbria: 17 Apr 1971
  Victorious: 23 Oct 1971
  Viper: 6 Nov 1971
  Warrior: 31 July 1971
Shipton, Mother: 8 Jan 1972
Shipwreck, begins: 28 Nov 1970
Shipwrecks: 2 Jan 1971
Shipwreck lifeboats: 9 Jan 1971
Shipwreck Royal Charter: 16 Jan, 19/1
Shiraz, Persia: 21 Aug 1971
Shrimp, brine: 3 Apr 1971
Shoes: 2 Jan 1971
Shuttlecock: 17 July 1971
Sikorsky: 4, 11, 18 Sep 1971
Silk route: 17 Oct 1970
Silver: 19 Dec 1970
Silver Ghost Rolls-Royce: 23 Oct 1971
Simnel, Lambert: 2 Oct 1971
Simpson, James: 4 Sep 1971
Singapore: 6 June 1970
Sioux Indian Chief Statue: 13 Mar 1971
Sioux, the: 27 Feb 1971
The Sirens and Odysseus: 21 Aug 1971
Sitting Bull: 9 Jan 1971
Skate fish: 30 Jan 1971
Ski-joring: 4 Sep 1971
Skorenzy, Otto: 11 Sep 1971
Sky - Kar Transivator: 30 Jan 1971
Skyscrapers: 27 Nov 1971
Slavery, abolition of: 3 July 1971
Slavery, Africa: 3 July 1971
Slaves, negro: 24 July 1971
Slavonian Grebe: 25 July 1970
Sleeman, William: 3 July 1971
Slim, Sir William: 30 Oct 1971
Sluys, battle of: 26 June 1971
Smart, Billy: 2 Jan 1971
Smith, George Joseph: 5 Feb 1972
Smith, James, shoe-maker: 16 Jan 1971
W.H. Smith: 4 Sep 1971
Smolensk, battle of: 14 Aug 1971
Smuggling: 1 Jan 1972
Smuts, General. 17 Oct 1970; 30 Oct, 6 Nov 1971
Smythe, Pat: 24 Apr 1971
Snake bird: 13 Mar 1971
Snake fly: 20 Feb 1971
Snakes - British: 29 May 1971
Snell, Peter: 7 Aug 1971
Snowdon, Mount: 15 May 1971
Soane, Sir John: 4 Sep 1971
Soap: 17 Oct 1970
Sobers, Gary: 4 July 1970
Social reform, Acts: 6 Feb 1971
Socrates: 5 Sep 1970
Solferino, battle of: 21 Aug 1971
Solomon, King: 19 Feb 1972
Somme, battle of: 30 Oct, 20 Mar 1971
Song of Roland: 10 July, 28 Aug 1971
Sonic booms - Concorde: 25 Dec 1971
Sorcerers: 9 Oct 1971
Sound spectacles: 25 July 1970
South Africa: 27 June 1970; 16 Oct, 6 Nov 1971
South African Gold Rush: 6 Nov 1971
South America: 6 June 1970; 3 July 1971
South America, bananas: 18 Sep 1971
South America, early animals: 10 July 1971
Southampton, 100 Years' War: 26 June 1971
South Pole: 16 Jan 1971
South Seas: 26 Sep 1970
Space. 6, 20, 27 June, 5, 12, 19 Dec, 5 Sep 1970; 2 Jan 1971
Space - Apollo: 6 Mar 1971
Space - disaster Apollo: 23 Jan 1971
Space - dog in: 12 June 1971
Space - 1 walk: 13 Mar 1971
Space - engineering: 4 Dec, 20 Nov 1971
Space (Moon landing): 25 July 1970
Space - Luna 17: 23 Jan 1971
Space stations: 7 Nov 1970
Space umbrella: 1 May 1971
Space - unmanned flights: 12 June 1971
Space - Venus: 7 Aug 1971
Spain, modern: 20 Mar 1971
Spain - Moor invasion: 30 Oct 1971
Spanish Armada: 17 July 1971; 19 Feb 1972
Spanish Civil War: 10 July, 24 Apr, 20 Mar, 14 Aug 1971
Spanish Inquisition: 17 July 1971; 26 Feb 1972
Spanish shipwreck: 20 June 1970
Sparrowhawk: 25 July 1970
Spectrum, continuous: 5 Feb 1972
Speed: 5 Sep 1970
Speed records: 27 Nov 1971
Speedway Championships 1956: 11 Sep 1971
Speke, John, R. Nile: 10, 31 July 1971
Sphinx of Gizeh: 14 Aug 1971
Spilsbury, Sir Bernard: 5 Feb 1972
Spinning Jenny: 31 July 1974
Sponge Crab: 29 Aug, 26 Dec 1970
Sponges: 26 Sep 1970
Sport: 13, 27 Mar, 12, 19 June, 3 July 1971
Sport - champions: 10 Apr 1971
Sport - Cricket: 20 Mar 1971
Sport (historical): 19 Sep 1970
Sport (ice): 19 Dec 1970
Sporting facts: 15 May 1971
Sports Car: 20 Nov 1971
Sportsman: 3 Apr 1971
Sprains, first aid: 30 Jan 1971
Spurs, battle of the: 14 Aug 1971
Squid: 25 Sep 1971
Squirrels: 30 Oct 1971
Squirrel, Grey: 7 Aug 1971
Squirrel, Red: 6 Mar 1971
Stalin, Joseph: 27 Feb, 30 Jan 1971
Stalk-eyed Fly: 13 Mar 1971
Stamford Bridge, battle of: 16 Oct 1971
Sir Stamford Raffles: 6 June 1970
Stamp tax: 11 Sep 1971
Stamps:$
  Africa: 7 Aug 1971
  Argentinian: 16 Jan 1971
  Ascension: 10 July 1971
  Australia: 14, 28 Aug, 13 Feb 1971
  Bangladesh: 13 Nov 1971
  British: 22 May, 20 Nov 1971
  Bull's Eyes: 3 Apr 1971
  Canada: 27 Feb 1971
  Canadian: 3 July, 6 Mar 1971
  Charity: 2 Jan, 20 Mar 1971; 19 Feb 1972
  China: 18 Dec 1971
  Czech: 10 Apr 1971
  Denmark: 1 May 1971
  Dr. Martin Luther King: Jan 9 1971
  East Africa: 17 July 1971
  Edward VII: 27 Mar 1971
  European: 30 Oct 1971
  German: 4 Dec, 15 May 1971
  Gilbert and Ellice Islands: 11 Dec 1971
  Greenland: 31 July 1971
  Hungary: 18 Sep 1971
  Japanese: 8 Jan 1972
  Jersey: 22 Jan 1972
  Jerusalem: 12 June 1971
  Luxembourg: 20 Mar 1971
  Mafeking Mail: 8 May 1971
  Monaco: 4 Sep 1971
  Olympic Games: 29 Jan 1972
  Papua and New Guinea: 6 Nov, 19 June 1971
  Penny Blacks: 1 Jan 1972; 3 Apr, 9 Jan 1971
  New Zealand: 20 Feb 1971
  Penny Post: 9 Jan 1971
  Pets: 12 Feb 1972
  Polish: 5 Feb 1972
  Questions answered: 25 Sep 1971
  Ross Dependency: 1972
  Space: 21 Aug 1971
  Specials: 26 June 1971
  Square cuts: 11 Sep 1971
  Swiss: 13 Mar 1971
  2d Blue: 9 Jan 1971
  West Germany: 24 July, 2 Jan 1971
  Wild life in danger: 5 June 1971
Stanley Brothers: 20 Oct 1971
Stanley, F.E.: 6 Feb 1971
Stanley, H.M.: 16 Jan 1971
Starfighter: 24 July 1971
Statham, Brian - bowler: ??
Statues with a Story, begins: 12 Feb 1972
Steam car: 6 Feb 1971
Steam engine: 25 Dec 1971
Steamers: 8 Aug 1970
Steam navigation: 20 Feb 1971
Steam Packet: 15 Aug 1970
Steam Power: 25 Dec 1971
Steam turbine engine: 21 Nov 1970
Steel - Port Talbot: 20 Nov 1971
Steel industry - Sheffield: 2 Jan 1971
Stella Disaster: 12 Feb 1972
King Stephen: 25 Dec 1971
Stephenson, George: 5 June, 10 Apr, 2 Oct 1971
Stewart, Jackie: 1 Jan 1972; 11 Dec, 23 Jan 1971
Stewart J. Cort: 19 June 1971
Stewart, Mr and Mrs: 24 Apr 1971
Sting Ray: 19 Sep 1970
Stock Exchange: 16 Oct 1971
Stone Age: 9 Oct, - 30 Oct 1971
Stradivari, Antonio: 10 July 1971
Strange Sporting Facts, begins: 8 May 1971
Strike, General: 24 Apr 1971
Stromboli - volcano: 17 Apr 1971
Storm, The Great: 1 Jan 1972
Story of this century, ends: 19 June 1971
Story of the Crimea, begins: 8 May 1971
Stroudley, William: 13 Mar 1971
Stuart, Charles Edward: 4 Dec 1971
Stuart Family: 29 Jan 1972; 11 Sep 1971
Sturgeon: 22 Jan 1972
Stuart, Charles: 6 Feb 1971
St. Collen: 23 Jan 1971
St. Crispin's Day: 31 July, 20 Nov 1971
St. Dunstan: 26 Dec 1970
St. George: 3 Oct 1970
St. Hugh: 26 Dec 1970
St. John, Order of: 13 Nov 1971
St. John Ambulance: 1 May, 19 June 1971
St. Kitts, Caribbean: 27 Nov 1971
St. Lawrence River: 12 Sep 1970
St. Paul's Cathedral: 2 Jan, 13 Nov 1971
St. Peter's: 1 Jan 1972
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: 15 May 1971; 26 Feb 1972
Sub Killer: 1 May 1971
Submarines: 3 Oct, 6 June, 5 Dec, 29 Aug, 19 Dec 1970; 27 Mar, 29 May 1971
Submarines (Argonaut) 1: 20 Feb 1971
Submarines (midget): 23 Feb 1971
Submarines (modern): 31 July 1971
Submarines (Nautilus): 24 July, 16 Jan 1971
Submarines (tanker): 9 Jan 1971
Submarines (with wheels): 20 Feb 1971
Succession, Act of: 16 Jan 1971
Sudan, W.W.1: 3 Apr 1971
Suez Canal: 10 Oct 1970; 9 Oct, 24 Apr 1971
Suffolk, earl of: 7 Aug 1971
Suffragettes: 8, 15 May, 7 Aug 1971
Sugar - West Indies: 21 Aug 1971
Suleiman the Magnificent: 11 Dec 1971
Sullivan, Arthur: 3 July 1971
Sullivan, John L.: 28 Aug 1971
Sulphur: 1 Jan 1972
Sumerians: 6, 13 Nov 1971
Sun: 26 Feb 1972
Sunbeam cars: 27 Nov 1971
Sunbirds: 5 Dec 1970
Sunflower: 20 June 1970; 6 Nov 1971
Supremacy, Act of: 116 Jan 1971
Surfing: 10 July,-1971. 10 Oct 1970
Surgeon fish: 17 July 1971
Surinam: 6 June 1970
Surnames: 7 Aug 1971
Surrey, Earl of: 16 Jan 1971
Sutherland, Sir Thomas: 17 Oct 1970
Sutton Hoo: 6 June 1970
Sverdrup, Otto: 19 Sep 1970
Swallows: 6 Feb 1971
Swan - Leda and the: 23 Jan 1971
Swan, Sir Joseph: 2 Jan 1971
Swans: 23 Jan 1971
Swans at Wells: 23 Oct 1971
Sweden: 3 Oct 1970
Swift, Spine Tailed: 5 June 1971
Swift as journalist: 4 Sep 1971
Swimming: 26 Dec 1970
Swing bridge, Newcastle: 17 Apr 1971
Swiss National fete: 6 June 1970
Sydenham, Thomas: 4 Sep 1971
Sydney: 9 Oct 1971
Sydney Harbour Bridge: 13 Mar 1971
Symmes, Captain John: 1 Aug 1970
Szabo, Violette (French Resistance): 18 Sep 1971

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# T

Table-tennis, early: 21 Aug 1971
Tadpole: 2 Jan 1971
Tagus River: 6 Feb 1971
Tailor-Bird: 26 June 1971
Taj Mahal: 26 June 1971
Talavera, Battle of: 24 July 1971
Talbot, Lord: 7, 14 Aug 1971
Tales. of the. Teutonic Knights begins: 28 Aug 1971
Taltean Games: 21 Aug 1971
Tanks - W.W.I: 6 Nov 1971
Tanks: 24 Oct 1970
Tanks, first used: 11 Sep 1971
Tantalus: 14 Aug 1971
Tannenberg, Battle of: 18 Sep 1971
Tanner, Inspector: 15 Jan 1972
Tanzania: 6 Mar 1971
Taxis: 5 Dec 1970; 3 Apr 1971
Tay Bridge Disaster: 29 Jan 1972
Taylor, Captain: 16 Jan 1971
Taylor, Philip Meadows: 3 July 1971
Teaching machines: 21 Aug 1971
Teaching by tape: 13 Feb 1971
Tebu tribe, Africa: 3 Apr 1971
Technology: 30 Jan 1971
Teeth: 20 Feb 1971
Telegraphy: 24 July 1971
Telephone, invention of: 6 Mar 1971; 8 Jan 1972
Telephone, portable: 6 Mar 1971
Telescope - Galileo: 2 Jan 1971
Telescope mirror: 25 July 1970
Telescope, radio: 31 July 1971
Television: 6 Mar 1971
Television - Baird: 23 Jan, 22 May 1971
Television camera - underwater: 29 May 1971
Television play - first: 29 May 1971
Televisions, portable: 19 June 1971
Telex: 27 Nov 1971
Telford, Thomas: 7 Aug 1971
Tell, William: 14 Nov 1970
Templar, Knights: 9 Jan, 28 Aug 1971
Temple, Shirley: 26 June 1971
Tennis: 6, 20 June, 26 Sep 1970; 10 Apr 1971
Tennis - Tudor times: 13 Mar 1971
Tennis - Henry VIII: 17 July 1971
Tennyson, A.: 13 Feb 1971
Termite, Queen: 3 Apr 1971
Test pilots: 5 Dec 1970
Teutonic buildings: 11 Sep 1971
Teutonic Knights: 28 Aug, - 18 Sep 1971
Teutonic legend: 6 June 1970
Tewkesbury, battle of: 6 Mar, 4 May 1971
Tewkesbury Cathedral: 6 Mar 1971
Texas: 12 Sep 1970
Texas Revolution: 29 Jan 1972
Textile Industry: ??
Thames: 21 Nov 1970; 19 June 1971
Thames watermen race: 31 July 1971
Thatchers: 9 Jan 1971
Theatre: 25 July 1970
Theatre, hemispherical: 9 Jan 1971
Theft-proof bank: 6 Mar 1971
Theorbo: 16 Jan 1971
Thermic lances: 6 Mar 1971
Theseus: 20 June 1970; 17 ?? 1971
Thetis submarine: 29 May 1971
'They Built a Better World', begins: 25 Sep 1971
'They Will Live Forever', begins: 29 May 1971
'This Century', begins: 8 May 1971
Thistlewood, Arthur: 20 Feb 1971
Thjorsa River: 17 Apr 1971
Thomas the Rhymer: 22 Jan 1972
Thompson, Don: 11 Sep 1971
Thompson, John T.: 15 May 1971
Thomson, J.J.: 9 Jan 1971
Thomson, Sir Joseph: 28 Aug 1971
Thorn Insect: 20 Feb 1971
Thorpe, Jim: 23 Jan 1971
Threadneedle Street: 13 Nov 1971
Three-wattled Bell Bird: 6 Mar 1971
Tibbles, Thomas: 22 May 1971
Tibet, Chinese invasion: 12 June 1971
Tigers: 7 Aug 1971
Tigris: 5 Dec 1970
Time - docks: 20, 27 Feb 1971
'Times': 11, 18 Sep 1971
Timore, S.E. Asia: Mar 20 1971
Tiontati: 9 Jan 1971
Titian: 21 Aug 1971
Tito, Marshal: 18 July, 7 Nov 1970
Toaster: 27 Feb 1971
Tobogganing: 18 Sep 1971
Togo, Admiral: 28 Aug 1971
Tokyo: 4 July 1970; 4 Sep 1971; 12 Feb 1972
Tolkein, J.R.R.: 17 Oct 1970
Tolpuddle Martyrs: 11 Dec 1971
Tolstoy, Leo: 21 Aug 1971
Tom Thumb: 31 Oct 1970
Tongs - China: 10 July 1971
Toothpaste: 5 Dec 1970
Tornado at St Cloud: 8 Jan 1972
Tornadoes: 3 July 1971
Torpedoes: 29 May, 27 Mar, 26 June 1971
Torpedo, human: 27 Feb 1971
Torrey Canyon: 20 June 1970; 21 Aug 1971
Totino, Count Dino: 23 Oct 1971
Tournaments: 22 Aug 1970
Towards a Promised Land, begins: 19 Feb 1972
Tower of London: 24 Apr, 24 July 1971
Tower of London - Ravens: 30, Jan 1971
Town Criers: 4 Sep 1971
Towton, battle of: 27 Mar 1971
Trade routes: 19 Sep 1970
Trade Unions, story of: 11 Dec 1971
Trafalgar Square: 29 Jan, 19 Feb 1972
Traffic: 13 Nov 1971
Traffic warden: 3 Apr 1971
Trains: 5 Sep 1970; 17 Apr 1971
Trains - "Big Bertha": 31 Oct 1970
Trains - ship carrying: 21 Nov 1970
Trains, steam: 24 Apr 1971
Trains of Tomorrow: 13 June 1970
Trains - underwater: 6 Mar 1971
Tram, last in London: 12 June 1974
Transatlantic flights: 8 May 1971
Transistors: 12 Feb 1972
Transport Museums: 4 Sep 1971
Transport workers: 3 Apr 1971
Transvaal: 6 Nov 1971
Travel - future: 28 Aug 1971
Travis, William: 29 Jan 1972
Treason, Act of: 16 Jan 1971
Treasure hunting: 17 Apr 1971
Treasure ship: 6 June 1970
Treehopper: 3 Apr 1971
Tricycles: 19 June 1971
The Trigan Empire:$
  Series 24, 'The Puppet Emperor', ends: 6 June 1970
  Series 25, 'Trigo's Five Tasks', / 'The Five Labours of Trigo', 13 June, - 14 Nov 1970
  Series 26, 'The Menace From The Sea', / 'The Menace from the Deep', 14 Nov 1970 - 6 Feb 1971
  Series 27, 'The Giant Rallus', / 'The Rallu Invasion', 13 Feb, - 27 Mar 1971
  Series 28, 'The City of Jewels', 27 Mar, - 22 May 1971
  Series 29, 'The Imposter', / 'The Unscrupulous Servant', 29 May, - 17 July 1971
  Series 30, 'The Duplication Machine', / 'The Duplicator', 17 July, - 18 Sep 1971
  Series 31, 'The Masked Raiders', / 'Revenge of a Friend', 25 Sep, - 4 Dec 1971
  Series 32, 'The Prisoner of Zerss', 4 Dec 1971 - 12 Feb 1972
  Series 33, 'The Miniature Killers of Zelph', / 'The Black Duke', starts: 19 Feb 1972
Trinidad and Tobago: 13 June 1970
Trinity House - lighthouses: 8 May, 4 Dec 1971
Tripoli: World War II: 16 Jan 1971
Tristan da Cunha Island: 11 Dec 1971
Triumph motor car: 2 Jan 1971
Tromba Marina: 30 Jan 1971
Trombone: 9 Jan 1971
Trotsky, Leo: 14 Aug 1971
Troy: 13 June 1970
Troyes, Treaty of: 7 Aug 1971
Trubshaw, Brian: 18 Sep 1971
Tsar, Nicholas II; 26 Sep 1970
Tshushima, battle of: 7 Aug 1971
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin: 24 Oct 1970
Tsunami wave: 26 Feb 1972
TT Races. (Isle of Man): 5 Sep 1970
Tuatura: 19 Dec 1970
Tube trains: 10 Oct 1970
Tudor England: 12 Sep 1970
Tudor life: 23 Jan 1971
Tudor, Mary: 15 May 1971; 26 Feb 1972
Tug-of-War: 14 Aug 1971
Tulips: 14 Nov 1970
Tullich, battle of: 19 June 1971
Tunisia: 24 Apr 1971
Tunnel, Holland (New York): 3 Oct 1970
Turks - World War I: 2 Jan 1971
Turkey: 22 Aug 1970
Turkey - history: 28 Aug 1971
Turkey, modern: 28 Aug 1971
Turkish baths: 10 Apr 1971
Turks.— Constantinople: 11 Dec 1971
Turnip, largest: 16 Jan 1971
Turpin, Dick: 24 Apr, 30 Oct 1971
Turpin, Ben: 23 Jan 1971
Turtle: 20 June 1970
Turtle, Green: 10 Apr 1971
Tussaid, Madame: 4 July 1970
Tutankhamen - mask: 4 Dec 1971
T.V. Commercials - 1: 18 Sep 1971
T.V. News: 18 Sep 1971
Twain, Mark: 29 Jan 1972
"Twilight of Empire" ends: 27 Feb 1971
Twiss, Peter: 18 Sep 1971
Twist, Oliver: 13 Feb 1971
Tyler, Wat: 9 Jan, 19 June 1971
Tyne, south: 27 Mar 1971
Tyne River: 27 Mar, 17 Apr 1971
Tynemouth Abbey: 17 Apr 1971
Tyres: 28 Aug, 2 Oct 1971
Tyrrel, Sir Walter: 24 Oct 1970

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# U

Udall, William: 20 June 1970
Ujiji, Central Africa: 16 Jan 1971
Ulysses (Joyce): 30 Jan 1971
Unconsciousness: 30 Jan 1971
Underground Railway: 10 Oct 1970
Underwater photography: 22 May 1971
Underwater World: 5 June 1971
Unfinished Revolution, begins: 1 Jan 1972
U.F.O.s: 17 Oct 1970
Uniforms: 6, 20, 27 June 1970; 23 Jan, 6 Feb, 4, 11, 18, 25 July, 1, 15, 29 Aug, 19 Sep, 10, 17, 24, 31 Oct, 7, 14, 21 Nov 1971
United Nations: 13 Mar, 11 Sep 1971
Unsolved Mysteries: 14 Aug 1971
Unstead, R.J.: 6 Feb 1971
Ur, South Iraq: 8 May 1971
Ur, Sumeria: 13 Nov 1971
Uraguay: 27 June 1970
Uranus: 6 Mar 1971
USA Secretary of State: 2 Jan 1971
U.S.S.R.: 11 July 1970
Utah - Mormon home: 17 July 1971
U-Thant: 13 Mar 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# V

Vacuum Cleaners: 19 Feb 1972
Valence, France: 16 Jan 1971
Valera, Eamonn de: 4 Sep 1971
Valetta, Malta: 13 Nov 1971
Vardill, Rev. John: 18 July 1970
Varennes, Flight to: 15 Jan 1972
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: 31 July 1971
V.E. Day: 1 May, 5 June 1971
Veddas: 19 Sep 1970
Velasquez: 10 July, 31 July 1971
Venezuela: 20 June 1970
Venice: 15 Jan 1972
Venus Flower Basket: 12 Dec 1970
Verdun, Battle of: 20 Feb 1971
Versaillés-Louis XIV: 25 Sep 1971
Versailles, Treaty of: 6 Mar 1971
Vespucci, Amerigo: 6 Mar 1971
Vesuvius - volcano: 17 Apr 1971
Veteran Car Race: 26 Dec 1970
Vets: 18 Sep 1971
Vibraphone: 26 Dec 1970
Victoria Cross: 19 June 1971
Victoria Cross - Gibson: 11 Sep 1971
Victoria, Queen: 22 May 1971; 8, 22 Jan 1972
Victors, No. 1: 6 Feb 1971
Vidocq, Eugene-Francois: 22 Jan 1972
Vienna: 3 Oct 1970; 11 Dec 1971
Vienna, Congress of: 4 Sep 1971
Vienna, France: 9 Jan 1971
Vietnam War: 19 June 1971
Vikings: 29 Aug 1970; 6 Mar, 25 Sep 1971
Villers, Mary: 8 May 1971
Da Vinci, Leonardo: 1 May, 19 June 1971
Viol: 5 Dec 1970
Viola de Gamba: 2 Jan 1971
Violets: 5 Dec 1970
Violin-makers: 10 July 1971
Viperfish, Pacific: 27 Mar 1971
Visconti, Adriano: 22 May 1971
Vision: 16 Oct 1971
Vistula: 30 Jan 1971
Viviers: 23 Jan 1971
Voice prints: 5 June 1971
Volcanoes - Tristan da Cunha: 11 Dec 1971
Volga: 14 Nov 1970
Vortigern, King of England: 10 July 1971
Voskhod II: 19 June 1971
Vostok III: 19 June 1971
VTOL planes: 12 June 1971
Vulture, King: 3 Apr 1971

# -------------------------------------------
# W

Wadlow, Robert: 29 May 1971
Wagener, Alfred: 5 June 1971
Wahstadt, Battle of: 11 Sep 1971
Wailing Wall, Jerusalem: 25 Dec 1971
Waitangi, Treaty of: 30 Jan 1971
Waldron, John: 30 Jan 1971
Wales, Prince of Wales: 19 June 1971
Walker, Joe, pilot: 24 July 1971
Walking sticks: 13 Feb 1971
Wall, Great: 23 Jan 1971
Wall, Great (California): 10 Apr 1971
Wallace, Sir William: 1 Jan 1972
Wallis, Dr. Barnes: 11 Sep 1971
Wallis WA-117: 24 Apr 1971
Wall Street Crash, 1929: 8 May 1971
Walpole, Robert: 17 July 1971
Walsingham, Sir Francis: 13 June 1970
Walton, Edward: 22 Jan 1972
Walters, Anne Marie: 4 Dec 1971
Wandsworth prison: 15 May 1971
Warbeck, Perkin: 14 Nov 1970
Warbler: 4 July 1970
War correspondent - first: 8 May 1971
War Criminals: 1 May 1971
Warlock: 25 Sep 1971 - 15 Jan 1972
War in 15th century: 8 May 1971
War of Independence: 9 Jan 1971
War On Want: 14 Aug 1971
Warrior, begins: 25 Sep 1971
Wars of the Roses: 21 Aug 1971
Warwick the Kingmaker: 10 Apr 1971
Warwick, Earl of: 7 Aug 1971
Warwick, Thomas, Earl of: 2 Jan 1971
Warwick, town: 2 Jan 1971
Washing machines: 13 Mar 1971
Washington: 29 May 1971
Washington, George: 12 June, 14 Aug 1971
Wasp: 17 July 1971
Wasp, Wood: 1 May 1971
Water Beetle: 12 Dec 1970
Water Boatman: 3 July 1971
Water Bug: 10 Apr 1971
Waterloo, Battle of: 2 Jan, 12 June 1971
Water-sprite: 4 July 1970
Water supplies: 18 Dec 1971
Waters of the Tyne: 27 Mar, - 17 Apr 1971
Waterton, Charles: 22 Aug 1970
Waterways: 13 Nov 1971
Watson, Dr.: 24 July 1971
Watt, James: 25 Dec 1971
Waynflete, William: 5 June 1971
Weapons: 27 Mar 1971
Weapons - earliest: 30 Oct 1971
Weapons, modern: 3 Apr 1971
Weather satellites: 9 Jan 1971
Webb, Captain Matthew: 21 Aug 1971
Wedgwood Pottery: 8 May 1971
Weevil, Giraffe-necked: 20 Mar 1971
Weevil, Hazel-Nut: 27 Mar 1971
Wellington, Duke of: 2 Jan, 11 Sep 1971
Wells, H.G.: 7 Aug 1971
Wembley Cup Final '56: 9 Jan 1971
Wenceslas, King: 25 Dec 1971
Wenden, Mike: 30 Jan 1971
Werewolf: 18 July 1970
Wesley, John: 9 Oct 1971
Wessex, England: 27 Nov 1971
West Germany: 20 June 1970
West Indies: 27 Nov 1971
West Indies - bananas: 18 Sep 1971
Westinghouse, George: 30 Oct 1971
Westland SH 3D submarine: 30 Oct 1971
Westminster Abbey: 2 Jan 1971
Whale: 16 Jan 1971
What's in a Word, begins: 19 Feb 1972
Wheat - Canada: 23 Oct 1971
Wheateater bird: 29 May 1971
Whipsnade Zoo: 15 May 1971
Whirlwinds: 3 July 1971
Whistler, James (Artist): 26 June 1971
Whitehall: 6 Nov 1974
Whitehead, Robert: 26 June 1971
White Horse of Kilburn: 19 June 1971
White House: 29 May 1971
White House - burning of: 21 Aug 1971
Whittington, Dick: 24 Oct 1970; 12 Feb 1972
Whittle, Sir Frank: 29 May 1971
Whymper, Sir Edward: 11 Sep 1971
Wilberforce, William: 3 July, 21 Aug 1971
Wild West: 3 July, - 14 Aug 1971
Wilhelm II: 30 Jan 1971
Wilkins, Sir Hubert: 24 July 1971
Wilkinson, John: 12 Sep 1970
William the Conqueror: 4 Sep, 16 Oct 1971
William III: 17 July 1970
William of Normandy, 13 Mar 1971
William the Lion, King of Scotland: 8 Aug 1970
Williamson's Photosphere: 22 May 1971
Willow, cricket bat: 16 Jan 1971
Wills, William John: 21 Aug 1971
Wilson, Sir Henry: 19 June 1974
Wilson, John, Lt. Comm.: 23 Jan 1971
Winchcombe: 17 Apr 1971
Wine - Burgundy: 16 Jan 1971
Wine - Claret: 16 Jan 1971
Windsor Castle: 5 Feb 1972
Windsor, Duke of: 29 May 1971
Wingate, Orde: 23 Oct 1971
Winslow - Meteorite crater: 21 Aug 1971
Winter, Fred: 4 Sep 1971
Wisdom, Tommy: 11 Dec 1971
Witchcraft: 25 July, - 18 Aug 1970
Witches of Aberdeen: 26 June 1971
Wolf Rock Lighthouse: 4 Dec 1971
Wolfe, James: 10 July 1971
Wolves: 14 Nov 1970
Wooden Horse: 13 June 1970
Wood Ibis: 13 Mar 1971
Woodpecker: 13 Feb 1971
Woodpecker, Green: 20 Mar, 7 Aug 1971
Woodpecker, Ivory-billed: 12 June 1971
Woodpecker, Wry-neck: 27 Feb 1971
Wool: 11 Sep 1971
Woolf, Virginia: 27 Mar 1971
Woolley, Sir L.: 13 Feb, 8 May, 6 Nov 1971
Worcester, Marquis of: 7 Aug 1971
Worcester Cathedral: 13 Mar 1971
Wordsworth, William: 4 July 1970; 27 Feb 1971
World Cup 1970: 12 Dec 1970
World Cup champions 1966: 19 June 1971
World's Great Civilisations, begins: 25 Sep 1971
World War I:$
  Japan: 9 Jan 1971
  Smuts: 6 Nov 1971
  Somme, Battle of: 23 Mar 1971
  Tank: 11 Sep, 6 Nov 1971
  Battle of Verdun: 20 Feb 1971
  Ypres: 24 July 1971
World War II:$
  World War II: 19 Sep 1970
  Alamein, 16 Jan 1971
  Baalsrud: 18 Dec 1971
  Blitz: 4 Sep 1971
  Burma: 30 Oct 1971
  Declaration of: 14 Aug 1971
  Dunkirk: 4 Dec 1971
  Eisenhower: 18 Dec 1971
  Italy, 4 Sep, 20 Nov 1971
  India, 20 Feb 1971
  Japan, 14 Aug, 11 Dec 1971
  Norwegian escapes: 18 Dec 1971
  Outbreak: 28 Aug 1971
  End: 6 Mar 1971
  R.A.F.: 13 Nov 1971
  Russian offensive: 9 Jan 1971
  Patton: 25 Sep 1971
Wren, Sir Christopher: 2 Jan 1971; 26 Feb 1972
Wrens: 9 Jan, 20 Feb 1971
Wright Brothers: 17 Apr, 14 Aug 1971
Wright, Frank Lloyd: 5 June 1971
Write-a-phone: 25 Sep 1971
Writing, micro: 16 Jan 1971
Wyelyff, John: 2 Jan 1971
Wyndham, John: 1 Aug 1970
Wyoming Territory: 17 Apr, ??

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# X

X-rays: 27 June 1970; 20 Mar, 7 Aug 1971; 29 Jan 1972

# -------------------------------------------
# Y

Yacht, British Steel: 13 Feb 1971
Yachting (American Cup): 20 June 1970
Yalta Conference: 30 Jan 1971
Yalu River, Battle of: 7 Aug 1971
Yangtse River: 7 Nov 1970
Yeager, Charles 'Chuck': 5 Dec 1970
Yellow River: 9 Jan 1971
Yokohama: 4 July 1970
Yorkshire: 29 Aug 1970
Young, Brigham: 17 July 1971; 19 Feb 1972
Youth Hostel Association: 3 July 1971
Ypres, Battle of: 24 July 1971
Yukon River: 31 Oct 1970
Yule log: 26 Dec 1970

# -------------------------------------------
# Z

Zapata: 4 July 1970; 26 Feb 1972
Zeppelins: 28 Aug, 12 June, 1 May 1971
Zeus: 14 Aug 1971
Zircon: 25 July 1970
Zoo, Whipsnade: 15 May 1971
Zulu War: 22 May 1971
