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Which industry was brought to Middlesbrough by Henry Volckow, and quickly became the largest employer in the town? | |
In which year did London Zoo and St. Katharine's Docks Open? | |
The Chartists were universal suffrage campaigners. Which was the list of demands they presented to parliament in 1839, 1842 and 1848? | |
Which Chartist had a mental breakdown as the movement fizzled out, and engaged Edmund Beckett Denison in a fistfight in the House of Commons? | |
Which diamond from Andhra Pradesh sat at the heart of the Great Exhibition of 1851? | |
Where in London did Karl Marx settle in 1856? | |
Which ancient Welsh poetry competition was resurrected in Denbigh in 1860 as a national event? | |
So how many years passed between Darwin's return to the UK on the HMS Beagle, and his publication of On the Origin of Species? | |
I am: the founder of the Irish Home Rule Party, also known as the Irish Parliamentary Party. | |
Which innovation of Gladstone had helped make the above party more successful, by reducing the electoral influence of landlords? | |
Which 1879 calamity prompted William McGonagall to write a verse that has been commonly described as the worst poem in history? | |
I am: an influential early atheist, banned from parliament in 1880 for refusing to swear a Christian Oath. | |
I am: the Scottish physicist who formulated a unified theory of electromagnetism, and described the nature of electric and magnetic fields. | |
Which river, running through Glasgow, was the centre of the country's shipbuilding for most of the industrial era? | |
What was the title of the pre-colonial leaders of Egypt, whose financial insolvency eventually drew the UK into the Scramble for Africa? | |
Which cathedral did Edmund Beckett Denison (now Baron Grimthorpe) restore between 1880 and 1883, in a city which had only just received city status? | |
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