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A new online, free and monthly magazine reports the news from 200 years ago as if it was happening now, and in today’s language. 200 Magazine makes use of contemporary newspapers, magazines, diaries and images from the 1820s. The front section contains news coverage from then, and the back pages link them to now, highlighting related visitor attractions, websites, books, magazines, organisations, and TV/film/radio output. News stories in the first three editions have included the deaths of the poet Shelley and the Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, a famine in Ireland, construction under way on the Stockton and Darlington railway, a big slave revolt in the USA, and now King George IV’s historic visit to Scotland. On a lighter note, there has been news of London’s first nude statue, a big cricket row at Lord’s, and an awkward meeting between Beethoven and the rising star of classical music, Rossini. Other big names in its pages so far have included Wordsworth, Byron, Constable, Turner, Madame Tussaud, and George Stephenson. The magazine is featuring news from every corner of the UK and Ireland, and internationally so far from the US, South America, Australia, Spain, South Africa and the Greek war of independence. This a link to the August edition, and previous ones can be found here. At the magazine’s website - www.200livinghistory.info/ - you can sign up to receive an alert when future editions are published.