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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![February 27th - March 5th](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/836c752f-6fc9-49b6-89e3-e334c0510b13/Daffodil.jpg)
![February 20th - 26th](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/1613072176594-T3UZEY4WSGG8VO86JKDI/Trevithick+steam+locomotive.png)
February 20th - 26th
The first railway journey ever; a tunnel to France under the Channel is announced; radar is demonstrated for the first time; and the first £1 note was issued….What a great week for inventions!
![February 28th - March 6th](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5df12b527cfbe70b38ada8bf/5cb540c3-be53-4ce0-8e97-9a58dc54ca87/Aspirin.jpg)
February 28th - March 6th
“A week about Wales - their patron saint; new English laws; and a fatal daring escape from the Tower of London…” Valentinian I, Saint David, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, King Robert II, Queen Victoria, Roderick Maclean, King Edward I, The Statute of Rhuddlan, Alexander Graham Bell, RNLI, Forth Bridge, King Henry II, Flora MacDonald, John of Gaunt, Aspirin, Michelangelo