Questions swirl around the most lethal pandemics in history - the Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world’s population, but the Spanish Flu, which started in 1918, killed more people. This week as the First World War is still being fought, Neil travels to Kansas in the United States of America to meet the person who is said to be ‘patient zero’.
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67. Abolition of Slavery, Kingston upon Hull
66. The Last invasion of Britain, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
65. The Tobacco Lords & the Slave Trade, Merchant City, Glasgow
64. The United States of America attacks Britain, Whitehaven, Cumbria
63. Auld Lang Syne & Robert Burns, Dumfries
62. The Birth of the Industrial Revolution, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire
61. Isaac Newton & Weighing the World - Schiehallion, Perthshire
60. General James Wolfe and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
59. Sat on a Volcano! Edinburgh
58. Captain Cook Sets Sail, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
57. Captain Cook - Where Dreams Are Made, Yorkshire
56. The Jacobites Last Stand, Culloden
55. England & Scotland United! St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh.
54. The Pitchfork Rebellion, Somerset.
53. Civil War! Lansdown Hill, Bath.
52. Civil War Coming! Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
51. White Slavery, Dunashad Castle
50. Shakespeare & the Globe Theatre, London
49. Hampton Court Palace
48. The Spanish Armada, the Giant’s Causeway
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