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Article: Magna Carta to Monty Python, but Victoria's not history Churchill and Wales also omitted from 'definitive' list of key figures and events from Britain's past
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- August 10, 2008
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QUEEN VICTORIA would not be amused. An authoritative list of the
50 key figures and events in British history has room for Monty
Python and the Beatles, but not for her.
The country's longest-serving monarch is among the most
controversial omissions from the list, which sets out to encapsulate
the things every Briton should know about their nation's past.
Compiled by the History Channel, the list includes crucial dates
such as the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the signing of the Magna
Carta in 1215 and victory at Trafalgar in 1805.
They are listed alongside such less-obvious events as the Gin
Craze of 1729, the building in 1859 of the Red House, archetype of
the Arts and Crafts Movement, by ...
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