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Catalhoyuk (Catal Hoyuk and Catal Huyuk) - a very large Neolithic

Catalhoyuk (Catal Hoyuk and Catal Huyuk) - a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. Level XII and Shrine of Level VIII (top photo) and the spectacular Bull Shrine, the north wall (with a dramatic painting showing Neolithic hunters attacking an aurochs) of level V. Article by James Mellaart, Lecturer in Anatolian Archaeology in the University of London. Date: 1966

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Strangling of the Beer Bill by Lord Brougham

Newspaper article, Strangling (with a misprint!) of the Beer Bill by Lord Brougham and other peers in the House of Lords. The writer claims that many families will be ruined as a result, and that it will disadvantage poor and working class people. The move was designed to limit the sale of beer amongst the poorer population by partially repealing the Sale of Beer Act (or Beerhouse Act) of 1830.
circa 1839

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Sir Winston Churchill's eighty adventurous years

Article by Sir Charles Petrie with accompanying photographs celebrating the 80th birthday of Sir Winston Churchill. Photographs from top to bottom: Mr Randolph Churchill with his son, Winston and his daughter, Arabella, at Chartwell; Sir Winston and Lady Churchill at the Garrick Theatre in May 1948 when their daughter, Sarah, (here shown in costume) played the part of Henrietta in a revival of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"; Sir Winston Churchill at the christening of his latest grandchild, Charlotte Clementine Soames, the second daughter of his youngest daughter, Mary. Date: 1954

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