Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (848/9-99) was the grandfather of the first King of England and did much himself to unite the people at […]
Alfred the Great (848/9-99) was the grandfather of the first King of England and did much himself to unite the people at […]
The Battle of Waterloo on 18th June 1815 finally crushed the self-styled French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt to rule Europe. Ten years […]
“And whereas it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to […]
In the early days of aviation, Amy Johnson CBE (1903-41) was a typist working in London and aeroplanes were a passion in […]
Like his second cousin, Lady Jane Grey, King Edward VI was born in 1537 and both their lives ended in their mid-teens, […]
Neighbours of the Angles, the Saxons’ own land, Old Saxony, was in north-east Germany. Their settlement of England in the mid-5th century, […]
Richard Cox Gough (1826-1902) discovered the cave, now named Gough’s Cave, which yielded many human remains, including the 10,000-year-old ‘Cheddar Man‘ skeleton. […]
In 1800, Britain and Ireland passed the Acts of Union which abolished the Irish Parliament and put Irish MPs and Lords into […]
In the period of 1650-1830, that small, persistent, criminal section of society found a new method open to it, giving rise to […]
The years 1348-50 saw the greatest loss of life in British and European history, when 20-50 million people died, both rich and […]
The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) was a period when the descendants of two of King Edward III’s sons – the Dukes […]
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