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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March 6th - 12th
Let’s hope the snow set to hit us this week isn’t as bad as the snowstorm that hit Britain on 9th March 1891…
October 10th - 16th
A boy for Henry VIII; the Mary Rose sees daylight once more; the Houses of Parliament catch fire; and the most famous battle in English history took place this week…
August 15th - 21st
Henry is friends with the Pope; a world war comes to an end; Pilgrims set off for a New World; India is free; a massacre occurs in Manchester; and a telegraph across the Atlantic takes 16 hours…
June 6th - 12th
D-Day, the Great Plague, and Vikings raiding Lindisfarne - this week in history was full of major events…
March 14th - 20th
“Beware the Ides of March (middle of March), a warning foretold to Julius Ceasar by a seer, but also an omen that should have been heeded by the five other rulers who all died this week…”