Modern History
The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera was the title of a story written by Gaston Leroux. It was first published in...
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First Ascent of the South-West Face of Everest
In 1953 Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tensing Norgay had been the first people to reach the summit of mount Everest....
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Operation Market Garden 1944
Operation Market Garden was an allied plan to advance into the Netherlands and secure bridges that would enable them to...
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Tripartite Pact 1940
The Tripartite Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on September 27th 1940, was an agreement to seek to further the...
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The Munich Agreement 1938
In May 1938 Adolf Hitler had completed an anschluss with Austria. Britain and France had largely ignored this action, neither...
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Germany Annexed the Sudetenland
At the end of World War One the treaties of Versailles, St Germain and Trianon broke the Austro-Hungarian Empire and...
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William Morris
William Morris was born on 21st March 1834. His parents were fairly wealthy middle class people and, including William had...
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The Jarrow March 1936
On 5th October 1936, 200 men left the town of Jarrow to march around 280 miles to London in protest...
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Hungarian Revolution 1848
Inspired by the events of the French Revolution, Lajos Kossuth, leader of the Hungarian opposition party, made a speech on...
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