History Category
Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) was a period when the descendants of two of King Edward…
Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537 in the reign of King Henry VIII (1491-1547). His immediate…
The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was won under the inspired leadership of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and, after…
The first king of Scotland
Up to the early ninth century, the Scots and the Picts had not yet unified to form…
The Romans
It has long been taught in UK schools that the Romans transformed the country with their civilising…
D-Day
In the term ‘d-day’ the ‘d’ simply stands for ‘day’, emphasising its importance. It means the day…
The Huguenots
The Protestant religion emerged in the 16th century and its followers grew to be a sizeable minority…
The linking of Wales and England
The Welsh are the original Britons (evidenced by a 2015 study ‘The fine-scale genetic structure of the…
The Crusades
British participation in The Crusades was comparatively minor. Each of the Crusades was called for by a…
The Industrial Revolution
Britain was the world’s first nation to undergo an industrial revolution. It took place from approximately 1760…
King Henry VIII’s six marriages
King Henry VIII (1491-1547) was married six times. Two of those marriages were annulled and two of…
The Crimean War
The British participation in the Crimean War (1854-6) can be likened to joining in a playground squabble…