Liverpool to Melbourne: the newspaper
People & professions, Such was life:
During her 1854 voyage to Melbourne, the ‘Marco Polo’ published a weekly newspaper for passengers- which provides a vivid description to life on board.
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One of world sport’s most famous trophies, cricket’s Ashes urn, was presented for the first time on 24 December 1882.
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