The publication makes use of contemporary newspapers, magazines, diaries and images from the 1820s. The front section of the magazine contains news coverage from (currently) 1822, and the back pages link those events and news stories to the present day, highlighting visitor attractions of today, websites, books, magazines, organisations, and TV/film/radio output related to what was happening 200 years ago.

It is hoped this journalism-meets-history venture will be of general interest, to people specifically interested in local history, and to those teaching or being taught history at school and in universities and colleges.

The publication is produced by John Evans, a former BBC journalist and editor and who spent the last three years ‘live tweeting’ the news from 200 years ago, initially to mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre, following the completion of his masters at Birkbeck, University of London, and work on the London 2012 Olympics.

Discover more at www.200livinghistory.info