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The descendant of Indian royalty Noor Inayat Khan, known as Nora Baker, was a British spy who was sent to occupied France in World War Two as a secret agent. After months of carefully avoiding being exposed, she intended to head back to England on 14th October. Sadly, this was not to be, as…
Christmas trees, carol singers, Christmas cards, Father Christmas and crackers – integral parts of a traditional Christmas, but why? The Victorians…
Inventor, engineer, industrialist and philanthropist, William Armstrong the 1st Baron Armstrong is sometimes called Britain’s forgotten genius…
During the First World War, on the morning of October 12th 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad in Brussels, Belgium…
Nine years after the truce between France and England was cemented by the Treaty of Brétigny, hostilities broke out when the new French King on the throne, Charles V declared war. This second phase of the Hundred Years War became known as the Caroline War…
The Chartist movement was a mass movement driven by the working class, following the failure of the 1832 Reform Act to extend the vote. It got its name from the People’s Charter which listed the six main aims of the movement.
The armoured train incident. The capture of Winston Churchill by Boer forces on November 15th 1899 during the Second Boer War…
On 11th October 1899, the Second Boer War broke out between the British Empire and the two Boer states, the Republic of Transvaal and the Orange Free State…
All Gave Some, Some Gave All. World War One Military Museum and Memorials in Kenya. World history has virtually forgotten Africa ‘s contribution…
“Jarrow as a town has been murdered.” These were the words of MP Ellen Wilkinson as she addressed a crowd in Hyde Park in 1936 following the end of what became known as the Jarrow March…
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