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.
Guinea Pig Club
Established in 1941, The Guinea Pig Club was a social and support club for airmen who had sustained catastrophic burn injuries during World War Two and so called in honour of the experimental treatments of pioneering plastic surgeon, Sir Archibald McIndoe…
Remarkable Life of Thomas Pellow
Twenty-three years in captivity transformed a young boy from Cornwall into an elite fighter in the Moroccan army. His name was Thomas Pellow, a man who would escape from his enslavement and return home to tell his story…
Krystyna Skarbek – Christine Granville
Krystyna Skarbek, better known in England as Christine Granville, was a Polish secret agent who worked for British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She was awarded the George Cross for her bravery…
Caterpillar Club
“Life depends on a silken thread”. Formed in 1922 by Lieutenant Harold R. Harris, The Caterpillar Club was for fliers all over the world whose lives had been saved by parachutes…
Black Friday
On 18th November 1910 some 300 women marched on the Houses of Parliament to demonstrate and campaign for votes for women. The day became known as Black Friday for the verbal and physical violence shown to the women by police and bystanders…
The Sinking of RMS Titanic
Believed to be unsinkable, Titanic was the world’s largest passenger steam ship. However during her maiden voyage to New York, an encounter with an iceberg on the night of the 14th April 1912 resulted in the loss of 1517 souls…
Battle of Kambula
Although one of the lesser-known actions of the Anglo-Zulu War, the Battle of Kambula on 29th March 1879 avenged the British defeat at Isandlwana, established the superiority of the invading force and became the turning point of the war…
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…
