200 Magazine

In 2022 and 2023, a free online magazine called 200 reported the news from two centuries before, as if it was happening now and in the language of the 2020s.

In eleven editions it brought the doings of big names of the 1820s including King George IV, the Duke of Wellington, Telford, Stephenson, Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Liszt, Shelley, Byron, Turner, Scott and Tussaud, from every part of the UK, then including all of Ireland, and from every continent. 200 ran news of famine in Ireland, two wars in Europe, and the beginnings of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and ultimately successful campaigns against slavery and for Catholic rights in Ireland.

200 was devised, research, written and produced by independent historian John Evans, a former BBC journalist and editor. The archive is now hosted by BALH, as a useful resource for the local history community.