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
The forgotten nurse of the Crimean War
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
King Cnut the Great
Cnut se Micela, King of England and many embarrassing but quite funny typing errors, became King of Denmark in 1018 following the death of
The British General Election of 1918
On Saturday December 14th 1918, voters in Britain took part in the first General Election since December 1910 and the first since the Great War
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