Historical men and women
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Prince Albert: Consort to Queen Victoria
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Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was born on 26 th August 1819, the second son of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The title m...
Monday, 23 July 2018
Zita, the last Empress of Austria
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Zita Maria Grazia Adelgonda Michela Raffaella Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese was born on 9 th May 1892 at Viareggio in n...
Saturday, 21 July 2018
Matthew Webb: the first man to swim the English Channel
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Swimming the 21 miles of the English Channel is now quite a regular event, with a large number of successful crossings made every...
The conquests of Tamerlane
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The names of Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan are much better known in the history of medieval empire-building than that of Tamerlane...
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...
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