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Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Society founded in London in 1826 to publish cheap and accessible works on scientific and artistic subjects.

Ten Scottish cottars who were imprisoned in 1908 after illegally setting up homes on the small Hebridean island of Vatersay.

Former royal residence near Greenwich Palace, built between 1616 and 1635.

Type of all-terrain wheel developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Bramah Joseph Diplock.

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Long-running campaign against duties on newspapers, their advertising content and the paper they were printed on.

One of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Genre of publications chronicling the crimes and punishments of notorious criminals.

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Pillars erected by the Ordnance Survey to allow more accurate maps of Great Britain to be produced.