This week in history…
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Our weekly blog focuses mainly on the events that happened in Britain but there are a few international events covered.
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July 25th - 31st
A popular week for a royal wedding - three of them Tudor weddings and one a little more recent…
June 27th - July 3rd
“A week of new things coming into force - Votes for Women, 999 emergency number, SOS distress signal, Tower Bridge opens, laws to stop young children working … and colour TV makes an appearance for the first time…”
May 2nd - 8th
“A week of great things: peace in Europe, a victorious Alfred, a new tunnel, a new heart, a new record, a new King, a new Parliament, a solo flight to Australia, and the first female Prime Minister…”
April 11th - 17th
What a week! It kicks off with a disaster in space, followed by a massacre in India, then a battle between a king and his cousins, the sinking of a ship, and a fight for the throne. It finally ends with a story fit for a king!
April 4th - 10th
A week of tragedy, disaster and death, but also new beginnings… Martin Luther King Jr, Pocahontas, Ibrox Park, King Richard I, Olympic Games, World War I, Dick Turpin, Buddha, Margaret Thatcher, King Henry V, King Edward IV, Eadweard Muybridge, Prince Charles, Titanic