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THE GEORGIANS 1714 - 1837
Battle
of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805Admiral Lord Nelson
In 1758 a small sickly baby boy was born; son of the Rector of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. No one could have envisaged that this child would, in his lifetime, become one of England's greatest
heroes....
Emma Lady Hamilton
Lord Nelson's great love was Emma, a lady with a quite remarkable past!
The War of Jenkins' Ear
Now
who on earth was Jenkins,
and why is a war named after his ear?
Poor Fred!
English history records several members of its Royal family dying in peculiar circumstances.
But the strangest death must be that of Frederick, Prince of Wales who died after being hit with a cricket-ball....
Queen Caroline - the friendly Queen!
The only British Queen to be tried
for adultery.....
The Jacobite Revolts - a
Chronology
July 2005 marks 260
years since the start of the 'Forty-Five' Jacobite Rebellion. We
have charted the events which culminated in the last
major battle to be fought on British soil ...Culloden.
1797
- The
Last Invasion of Britain
How Jemima Fawr"
(Jemima the Great) and the ladies of Fishguard, with the help of
rather a lot of Portuguese wine, saved the day!
Not Waterloo but Peterloo
England is not a country of frequent revolutions; some say it is because our weather is not conducive to outdoor marches and riots.
However, weather or no weather, in the early 1800's, working men began to demonstrate on the streets and demand changes in their working lives....
Mutiny on the Bounty
Back in
the 1930’s a blockbuster movie was made which reappears almost every
year on the Christmas TV schedule. It tells the tale, which is in
fact a true story, about a famous mutiny that took place in 1789 on
an English ship.....
Stand
and Deliver!
Highwaymen - gentlemen of
the road or thugs and thieves?
Britain On Track
An invention that changed the world is 200 years old in 2004.
Britain is celebrating the bicentenary of the steam railway
locomotive with a year-long events programme....
The South Sea Bubble
The 18th century version of the Dot Com Boom - and Bust!
Robert "Rabbie" Burns Burns
Night - January 25th.
Robert Burns is the best loved Scottish poet, admired not only for
his verse and great love-songs, but also for his character and wit, his high spirits, 'kirk-defying', hard drinking and womanising!
Deacon William Brodie
It
is said that Brodie's bizarre double-life was the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's story of a split personality, 'The
Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde'......
Clothing and Costume: The
Georgians
Living
History Events - The Georgians
More British History
History
of England -
History of
Scotland - History of Wales
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