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Ireland:

The Other Famine: The 1822 Crisis in County Leitrim, by Gerard MacAtasney (THP Ireland, 2012) Amazon

"Don't get the idea that this is just about one very small Irish county. It provides an excellent overview and fair reflection of relief efforts in Britain." London Tavern Committee report, 1823Internet Archive

Royal deaths King William IV, by Philip Ziegler (Collins, 1971)Amazon Who was Queen Adelaide?, National Trust website

Rural crisis

The East Anglian Agrarian Riots of 1822, Paul Muskett (The Agricultural History Review, 1984) JSTOR Free registration Foxearth and District Local History Society,Newspaper Archive - Norfolk Chronicle 1822

"Stunning website containing huge quantity of fascinating material going way beyond the immediate area of this village on the Essex/Suffolk border."

New London church

St Pancras Churchwebsite St Pancras Old Churchwebsite

Stately homes

Wanstead House, East London's Lost Palace, Hannah Armstrong (LUP/Historic England, 2022)Liverpool University Press

Peterloo

Peterloo, The English Uprising, by Robert Poole (Oxford University Press, 2019) Amazon Peterloo, Witnesses to a massacre, by Polyp, Eva Schlunke, and Robert Poole (New Internationalist, 2019) New Internationalist

"Deservedly, these two very contrasting accounts of the tragic events in Manchester in August 1819 will last as definitive histories."

Stockton and Darlington Railway

The First Railways, by Derek Hayes (Times Books, 2017) Amazon Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway website The Railway Station blog

Swansea pollution

Intelligent Town, An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855, by Louise Miskell University of Wales Press Early Tourists in Wales Project - Chemical Pollution Activities: Copper Jack boat trips Friends of Hafod Morfa Copperworks free guided walks

INTERNATIONAL | PAGE 8

Greek War of Independence

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe, by Mark Mazower (Penguin, 2021) Amazon The Massacres of Chios - private website (Christopher Long)

Charleston uprising

Denmark Vesey, the Buried story of America's largest slave rebellion and the man who led it, by David Robertson (Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999) Amazon Charleston Gaillard Center - upcoming events to mark Denmark Vesey Bicentenary (an event may be recorded for streaming later)

South America

Liberators, Latin America's struggle for independence, 1810-1830, by Robert Harvey (John Murray, 2000) Amazon The Wars of Spanish American Independence 1809–29, by John Fletcher (Osprey, 2013) Bloomsbury Collections

SCIENCE, INVENTION AND EXPLORATION | PAGE 10

Thomas Telford and Conway/Conwy Suspension Bridge

Man of Iron, Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain, by Julian Glover (Bloomsbury, 2017) Bloomsbury Conwy Suspension Bridge - National Trustwebsite

Parry Arctic mission

Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, William Parry (John Murray, 1824) Hathi Trust website Barrow's Boys, a stirring story of daring, fortitude and outright lunacy, by Fergus Fleming (Granta, 1998) Amazon

THE ARTS AND SPORT - PAGE 11

Beethoven and Rossini

Beethoven, by Barry Cooper (Oxford University Press, 2000) Amazon The Unheard Beethoven Project - Beethoven 200 years ago

OLD FOX'S JOURNAL - PAGE 12

Thomas William Coke

Coke of Norfolk 1754-1842, by Susanna Wade Martins (Boydell Press, 2009) Amazon Holkham House website

OTHERS

Dover Museum has a 'stairwell' exhibition about smuggling in Kent, including the 1820s, running until mid-July.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND THANKS

200 Magazine is researched and written by John Evans. He gratefully acknowledges the help of Jane Evans, Jude Painter, Red Rocket Studio, Robert Poole, Terry Dunne, Barry Thompson, Caroline Hardie, Michael Freeman, Andy Pearson (Swansea Council), Hannah Armstrong, Anna Tallon (National Trust), Eddie Bundy (British Newspaper Archive), British Library, Cambridge University Library, Central Bedfordshire Libraries.

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