200 Magazine #1 June 1822 / 2022

200’s opening edition reported the first rails being laid for a railway to link Stockton, Darlington and the collieries of Co, Durham. (Its bicentenary is being celebrated in 2025.)

Then magazine’s front page reported that a new painting of news of the battle of Waterloo in 1815 reaching London was all the rage at the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition, and told how Beethoven and Rossini had met in Vienna.

This edition also contained news from Chester, Conwy, Dorset, Edinburgh, London, Norfolk, Northumberland, Swansea, and Manchester, plus fears of famine in Ireland, the running of the Epsom Derby, and two stately homes the future of which would hang in the balance for months in 1822 – Wanstead House in Essex and Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire.