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29 Mar
The Battle of Towton
- Palm Sunday, 29th March 1461 -
Described as one of the bloodiest, largest and longest in our history the battle of Towton was one of the many battles fought between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists in the Wars of...
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21 Mar
The Execution of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
- March 21st 1556 -
The first half of the sixteenth century saw a massive upheaval in the Church with the spread of Protestantism – the ideals of the German cleric Martin Luther. Nowhere was this...
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30 Jan
The Execution of Charles I - January 30th 1649
It was a bitterly cold Tuesday, 30th January. A scaffold had been erected in Whitehall. The platform had been covered with a black cloth. A block stood in the middle. This was the block on which...
date:
26 Jan
The Finding of the Cullinan Diamond
- 26th January 1905 -
The fascinating programme on the BBC in which the Queen was talking about the coronations of her father, George VI, and her own, was not only a fascinating insight into both events...
date:
06 Jan
The Crowning of the Last Anglo-Saxon King of England
Harold II (Godwinson)
- January 6th 1066 -
The military invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, and the subsequent war of succession of the same year, was triggered by the...
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