William Caxton and the Printing Press
William Caxton was born in Kent around the year 1422. As a teenager he was apprenticed to Robert Lange, a...
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Bloody Mary Queen of England
Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, has the misfortune of being remembered as 'Bloody Mary'. Mary...
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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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