200 Magazine #4 September 1822 / 2022

In September, 200’s pages were filled with news and pictures from King George IV’s visit to Scotland (the first by a reigning monarch in almost 200 years), an event stage-managed by author Sir Walter Scott.

This edition had extensive coverage of science and medicine: the death of astronomer William Herschel (discoverer of Uranus), how a dead stork unlocked the secrets of bird migration, and a new operating theatre for women at St Thomas’s hospital, London.

September’s issue also featured the war of words after the deaths of radical poet Shelley and conservative Lord Castlereagh, with Lord Byron (anonymously) urging passers-by to “Stop, traveller, and piss” on the grave of the dead Tory minister. There was also news from Edinburgh, Ireland, Ipswich, and Portsmouth.