The History of Britain Magazine
Welcome to the History of Britain! The home nations share a varied and shared history unlike anywhere else, so we thought it only right to create a section dedicated to our mutual heritage.
Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria faced not one but eight assassination attempts during her historic sixty-three-year reign…
A History of HMS Belfast
In the early 1930s, a concerned British Admiralty discovered that the Imperial Japanese Navy had started construction of the new Mogami-class light cruisers, which were superior in specifications to their Royal Navy counterparts. Thus, in 1934, construction of what would become the Town-class light cruisers began at British shipyards…
Singapore Alexandra Hospital Massacres 1942
Caught between advancing Japanese troops and retreating British forces during the fall of Singapore, Alexandra Hospital was the scene of a massacre by Japanese soldiers of wounded British soldiers and medical staff on 14 February 1942…
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and the Foundation of Singapore
Two hundred years ago, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles negotiated an important treaty, leading to the establishment of the British colony of Singapore. Raffles Hotel in Singapore, named after him, is one of the most famous hotels in the world…
Suffragette Outrages – The Women’s Social and Political Union WSPU
The suffragette movement, and in particular the militant Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), should be regarded as violent, a distinction which distances suffragettes from peaceful suffragists. Their ‘outrages’ – escalating to bombings, arson, and chemical attacks – potentially had a detrimental effect on the outcome of the suffrage campaign…
The Fall of Singapore
During the fighting and immediately afterward, civilians were murdered, enemy soldiers decapitated, prisoners burnt alive, hospital patients slaughtered where they lay. Winston Churchill described the fall of Singapore as “the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history.”
Battle of Spion Kop
Fought on 24th January 1900 during the Second Boer War, the Battle of Spion Kop was a disastrous British defeat. Winston Churchill, Louis Botha and Mahatma Gandhi were all present at the battle, and a stand at Liverpool’s football stadium Anfield is named after it…
The Glorious First of June 1794
The Glorious First of June (1794) was the first major naval battle between the French and British fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars…
