1897–2022 Everything’s changed and yet nothing’s changed in 125 years

142 | Country Life | May 11, 2022

Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee The Marquess of Salisbury Greco-turkish War Siege of Malakand The Blue Cross Bersey Electric Cabs Blackwall Tunnel First drink-driving conviction First wireless transmission Aspirin Ludo Tate Gallery Reinforced concrete Herbaceous borders Discovery of malarial parasites Royal Automobile Club Pencil sharpener Plasticine The Invisible Man Cyrano de Bergerac in Paris De Profundis Uncle Vanya Dracula A. E. Stoddart’s Xl Bloomers for cycling Woollen swimwear Tea gown Campbell’s condensed soup Victoria sponge cake The Sorcerer’s Apprentice COUNTRY LIFE

Queen Elizabeth II’S Platinum Jubilee Boris Johnson Russia invades Ukraine Siege of Mariupol Ukraine Crisis Appeal Audi e-tron GT Crossrail One in six breathalysed fail Fake news CRISPR Wordle Four Tate galleries Self-healing concrete Bee-friendly borders Discovery of the Omicron variant Royal Automobile Club Apple pencil Hama beads The Northman Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter Misery memoir Bridgerton Villanelle in Killing Eve Ben Stokes’s England Bamboo for cycling Recycled plastic swimwear Midi dress Campbell’s cream-of-tomato soup Gluten-free brownie Let it go COUNTRY LIFE