British Heritage
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
In August of 1888, London's East End witnessed the first of many gruesome murders, forever unsolved, by the madman we know as Jack the Ripper.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
England's first great historian composed his manuscripts in a cold, dimly lit cell in a Benedictine monastery.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Shakespeare's plays rank among the most artistic works of literature ever created, but there is much debate about who really wrote them.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Elizabeth I was the first English Queen to lend her name to an entire age. But in the half-century known for its pageantry and glamour, things were not always as they seemed.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Three generations of British mountaineers committed themselves to standing where no one ever had before.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:05 pm
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Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Amy Robsart's demise in England was paralleled by the suspicious death of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the north.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Did General Sir William Howe's reluctance to crush the rebellion decide the outcome of the American Revolution?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Dylan Thomas was that contradictory writer: the Welsh poet who could neither read nor write Welsh. His parents seem to have been completely opposed in their cultural background and beliefs and produced a strangely hybrid offspring.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Francis Walsingham's two great hates were Spain and Mary, Queen of Scots. Spain as a threat to his country and Mary as a threat to his Queen.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
For 200 years, William Bligh has been known as the tyrant of the Bounty, but he was probably not the villain legend depicts, and the famous mutiny was just one of the many dramatic events in his stormy life.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Half a century before Christ was born a Roman General landed on British soil for the first time and so marked one of the great turning points in history.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Allied journalists fought to cover the great moment in World War II and get the news back home.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
The legendary Lady Godiva was one of the founders and earliest rulers of the Midlands city of Coventry. Today, Coventry's past and present are in stark contrast.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Mary Tudor is remembered as one of our most infamous sovereigns, but was she?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Mary Boleyn was Henry VIII's mistress before he married her younger sister, Anne, but she survived Anne's downfall.
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