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A Year in History: Timeline of 1959 Events
June 9, 2019
Alaska became America’s 49th state, Hawaii became the 50th state and primates Miss Able and Miss Baker were launched into space for the first time....
A Year in History: 1939 Timeline
June 2, 2019
Major 1939 events signalled the coming of the Second World War. The interwar period represented an era of significant global changes. A brief term of...
1929 Timeline
May 23, 2019
The year 1929 brought with it the end of the Roaring Twenties, and saw the Wall Street Crash which started a worldwide Great Depression. Globally,...
A Year in History: Timeline of 1969 Events
April 12, 2019
What happened in 1969? The war ended. The swinging sixties quivered with change. A chain of famous events in 1969 would change the world for...
Man on the Moon: Remembering Apollo 11
March 17, 2019
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of man’s first steps on the Moon. On July 20th 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins became the...
Suffragette Martyr: The Death of Emily Davison
November 3, 2018
Emily Wilding Davison was born in South East London in 1872. She was a high-achiever, and completed a Bachelor of Arts in literature from Royal...
The Franz Ferdinand Assassination: A Catalyst for World War One
October 21, 2018
The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, is a major historical event that shocked the world. The Franz Ferdinand assassination took...
World's First Passenger Railway
October 24, 2017
Railroads were already in existence for quite some time, used primarily to transport goods, prior to the idea of them being used to transport people...
Queen Elizabeth II: The Early Years
October 9, 2017
Queen Elizabeth was born at 2:40am on 21st April 1926 at her maternal grandfather’s house at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair. She was the first...
The Pre 1799 Rare Newspaper Collection
October 3, 2017
For hundreds of years, the reading medium of Newspapers has amassed a strong popularity since the time of Ancient Rome. Carved into either metal or...
The Final Days of The Third Reich and The Death of Adolf Hitler
July 3, 2017
On the 12th April 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt died at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia. Upon hearing the news, the German hierarchy celebrated, with...
Ten Facts on the Sinking of Titanic
June 16, 2017
Lingering as the most devastating nautical scar in Britain’s maritime history, the sinking of Titanic remains a haunting two hours and forty minutes that froze...
Princess Diana Charity Work
May 2, 2017
Diana Frances Spencer was born in 1961, in Sandringham, England. Daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and Frances Shand Kydd, Diana belonged to a family...
Marilyn Monroe: A Tragic Farewell
March 13, 2017
“It’s all make believe, isn’t it?” – Marilyn Monroe Nothing less than perfection was Marilyn Monroe’s goal. She built her name in the glitzy, and...
The Life of Muhammad Ali
October 10, 2016
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to...
Leicester City: Premier League Champions
August 5, 2016
The 2015/16 Premier League season is one that will live long in the memory for all Leicester City fans. Following Tottenham’s second half capitulation at...
D-Day: First Hand Accounts
August 3, 2016
During the Second World War, Operation Overlord attack involved over 5,000 craft and succeeded in landing 156,000 troops within its first 24 hours. Indeed, by...
Paper Rationing During World War II
June 3, 2016
Rationing didn’t suddenly start at the beginning of the Second World War since it took time for the war to bite, nor did rationing suddenly...
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