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on Life in the trenches in WW1
date:
28 Jun
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Sarajevo – June 28th1914 -
“I seized the Archduke by the collar of his uniform, to stop his head from dropping forward and asked if he was in great pain. He answered me quite distinctly, ‘It’s...
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on The basic principles of the Magna Carta
date:
15 Jun
The Signing of the Magna Carta
- June 15th1215 -
On the banks of the River Thames at Runnymede, near Egham, a memorial stands in a field. It was given by the American Bar Association and erected in 1957. It represents something very special...
date:
21 Mar
The Execution of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
- March 21st 1556 -
The first half of the sixteenth century saw a massive upheaval in the Church with the spread of Protestantism – the ideals of the German cleric Martin Luther. Nowhere was this...
date:
30 Jan
The Execution of Charles I - January 30th 1649
It was a bitterly cold Tuesday, 30th January. A scaffold had been erected in Whitehall. The platform had been covered with a black cloth. A block stood in the middle. This was the block on which...
date:
06 Dec
Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragette Movement
When I look into history I love to explore the prominent characters in the topic I’m studying and delve into their life before they became famous, so to speak. So, when I was researching the...