Contributed by Dr Edith Lister According to the historian of ancient Rome, Titus Livius Patavinus (‘Livy’), a sensational trial took place in 331 BC which
Arthur Woodifield
Contributed by Mr Peter Saskill Sergeant Arthur Woodifield (1870 –1950) was a Londoner. Born in Islington (then in Middlesex) on 5 November 1870, he is
1519: A tale of two guns
In 1519, in the far East, the Chinese warlord and Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming (1472-1529) was spending a considerable amount of time dealing with uppity
The sinking of the Iolaire
Contributed by Mrs Fiona Baird At 1.50 a.m. on January 1st 1919, His Majesty’s Yacht Iolaire ran aground on the rocks known as the
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By Alan Brown Martha Clough served as a ‘lady volunteer’ nurse in the Crimean War. Her date of birth is unknown, but she died after
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Cnut se Micela, King of England and many embarrassing but quite funny typing errors, became King of Denmark in 1018 following the death of
