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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Lady Jane Grey Queen for Nine Days
Lady Jane Grey was born in October 1537. She was the daughter of Henry Grey and Frances Brandon, daughter of...
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Glencoe Massacre 1692
In 1688 the Glorious Revolution saw William of Orange, Protestant husband of Charles II's daughter Mary, take the English throne...
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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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