Modern History
Nancy Astor First UK Female MP
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor was born in 1879 in Virginia, United States. Her father was a former plantation owner who...
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The Sand Creek Massacre
In 1851 the terms of the Treaty of Fort Laramie had guaranteed the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians ownership of land...
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The Flying Scotsman Locomotive
The London and North East Railway (LNER) 4472 Flying Scotsman was built in 1923 at Doncaster. It was seen as...
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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech made by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication ceremony of the Soldiers National Cemetery in...
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The Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw ghetto was established on October 12th 1940 when it was announced that all Jews living in Warsaw were...
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The Failure of the League of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organisation set up in 1919 to help keep world peace. It was intended...
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The Origins of the BBC
Wireless telegraphy was first publicly demonstrated by Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor in 1894. The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company was...
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The Sinking of the Tirpitz
The German battleship, The Tirpitz, sister ship to The Bismarck, was launched in April 1939. In 1941 the ship began...
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Remembrance Day
The Armistice agreement that brought an end to World War One was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest...
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The German Occupation of Vichy France
On 14th June 1940, Paris fell to Germany. The Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud and his deputy, Henri-Phillipe Petain, disagreed over...
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