British Heritage
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.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
The idea to fly solo to Australia came sometime at the end of 1929. Bert Hinkler's record 15 1/2-day flight from England to Australia stood, and no woman had yet attempted to better it. It was only a matter of time before someone did, and Amy decided it should be her.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Alfred, England's darling for more than a thousand years, had 'The Great' bestowed upon him in medieval times by an English nation proud of their ancestor.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 7:59 pm
The armies of William the Conqueror fought using tools of both offence and defence that differed radically from those used to storm the Normandy beaches in 1944.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 7:59 pm
The heroes of this 1877 mining disaster in Wales worked doggedly to free their coworkers trapped deep below the surface in rising flood waters.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Edmund Halley, best known for his 17th century prediction of the 76-year frequency of the cosmos' most famous comet, made scientific contributions far beyond astronomy.
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