Historical men and women
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Joseph Hansom and the Hansom Cab
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Until a few years ago, the signs that welcomed visitors to the town of Hinckley in Leicestershire declared it to be the “Home of t...
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Patrick Abercrombie: post-war town planner
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Patrick Abercrombie was an important figure in post-war town planning in England. He was born in 1879 in Ashton upon Mersey which...
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Monday, 25 June 2018
Jeanne Hachette, the heroine of Beauvais
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Close to the centre of the city of Beauvais, 50 miles north of Paris, is a bronze statue of a young woman who holds a captured stand...
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
The duel fought between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
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On 11 th July 1804 Alexander Hamilton was fatally wounded in a duel fought against Aaron Burr, who was then Vice-President of the U...
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
The rivalry between Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) and Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) are generally thought of as the two greatest British Prime Ministe...
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
The death of William the Silent, 1584
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William of Orange (usually known as “William the Silent”) has the dubious honour of being the first head of state to be assassin...
Monday, 7 May 2018
The coup d'etat of Claude-Francois Malet
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These days we take instant communications for granted, but in the days before the telephone and the telegraph a well-placed, but fa...
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