Modern History
The Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross is the highest medal in Britain awarded for acts of bravery in battle. The Crimean War 1853-1856...
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The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. As a child he got on very well with his mother but...
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Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein was born on 7th November 1879. He was educated at Odessa and Nikolayev. He learned of the...
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary began life as a project set up by the Philological Society in 1857 to produce a...
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Battle of Guadalcanal
The battle of Guadalcanal was a decisive battle of the Pacific war fought between the forces of the United States,...
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HMS Dreadnought
HMS Dreadnought was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and was launched on 10th February 1906. The 18,100 ton vessel, named after a...
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Nelson Mandela
On 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid campaigner and member of the African National Congress (ANC) was released from prison after...
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Fall of Singapore in WW2
Singapore had become a British province following the signing of the Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1824. Singapore grew and became a...
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Eamon de Valera
Eamon de Valera was born on 14th October 1882 in Manhattan, New York to an Irish mother and Spanish father....
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Battle of the Alamo
This was a battle in 1836 between the forces of the Republic of Texas and the forces of the Republic...
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