December 1

The Old Vicar, Henry II, A Message in a Bottle
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​December 2

C T Studd, The First Atomic Pile, Wojtek the Bear, Round the World by Flyingboat
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December 3

Discovery at Nineveh, The Battle of Birinus' Bones
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December​ 4

The Council
of Trent, The Atrahasis Epic, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra,
Thomas Carlyle

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Optional Resources
For Younger Readers

December 5

​Mozart, Mercator, Disney, Patience

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For younger children
Optional Resources​

​December 6

Lady Grizel Baillie
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​Optional Resources

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December 7

Fog in London

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​December 8

A Letter from Livingstone, Fairlop Oak, Lord Radstock
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December 9

The Battle of Reading, Traffic Lights, The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Optional Resources:
The Battle of Reading
The Charge of the Light Brigade​​

December 10

King Jehoiakim,
King Edward VIII,  The Spurn Peninsula

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December 11

Sir David Brewster, Leo X, Lars Skrefsrud

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December 12

Marconi, The Theft of the Mona Lisa

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December 13

Discovery of New Zealand,
Nicolay Yerofeyevich Boyko

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For younger children​

December 14

Abram Lyle,
Riddles
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​Optional Resources

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December 15

The Golden Ratio, Nero
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​December 16

Richard Fitzralph, Mary Jones's Walk, The Boston Tea Party, Bombardment of Scarborough
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Optional Resources
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December 17

Diver Eadie, John Rippon

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Optional Resources: score, audio
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December 18

​Chauvet Cave, Flick Book Art, Anne of Bohemia, Stradivari

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​December 19

​​The Fighting Temeraire,
Sir William Edward Parry

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​December 20

Pieter de Hooch Artist,
The Summit Tunnel, The coelacanth
(part 1)
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Colouring Picture

​December​ 21

Winter Solstice

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​Activity 

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​December 22

The coelacanth (part 2),
Beethoven's 5th Symphony 

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December​ 23

Mormons, David Asante, Samuel Smiles
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Samuel Smiles for younger readers
Hymn: score and words
Hymn: audio​​

December 24

​Thomas Aquinus, The Earthrise Picture

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December​ 25

Dr Baedeker's Winter Adventure, Sir James Simpson, James Webb Space Telescope, Chelsea Pensioners' Cheese
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Optional Resources​

December​ 26

Daily Light

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December 27

Hibernation
Darwin
Stalin and the Kulaks
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December 28

Thomas Babbington Macaulay​

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For younger children
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December 29

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Lionel Tertis
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December​ 30

Coming Soon

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December 31

A French Calendar, Phrenology, Thomas Edison

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