The last ever pitched battle to be fought on British soil took place on 16th April 1746 on Drummossie Moor, overlooking Inverness. Charles Edward Stewart, The Young Pretender The Jacobite Rising was ...

Risqué illustrations of scandalous affairs and humorous digs at London’s elite, this was the golden age of caricature in Georgian England. The satirical prints of the Georgian Era marked the “Golden ...

Welcome to the turbulent time of the Wars of the Roses, the real Game of Thrones. It is the year 1461 after the battle of Towton, the biggest and bloodiest clash on English soil resulting in victory ...

On 30th March 1856, the Crimean War was formally brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. This formal recognition signed at the Congress of Paris came after Russia accepted a ...

The Battle of Towton on 29th March 1461 was possibly the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. Although the Lancastrian King Henry VI had transferred the right of succession to the ...

Although one of the lesser-known actions of the Anglo-Zulu War, the Battle of Kambula on 29th March 1879 avenged the British defeat at Isandlwana, established the superiority of the invading force and ...

Some believe that certain stones can cure illnesses – for example, the 12 o’clock Stone near Nancledra in Cornwall can, it is said, cure children of rickets as long as they are not illegitimate or the ...

A Protestant martyr in the reign of Bloody Mary, Thomas Cranmer was a significant figure, serving as the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury. On 21st March 1556, Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the ...

The last battle of the First English Civil War took place in the early morning of 21st March 1646, just one mile north of the Cotswold market town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The Royalist (Cavalier) cause ...

At the south western tip of Millwall, near Canary Wharf in the East End of London, lie the remains of the SS Great Eastern’s launch ramp. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the SS Great Eastern was ...