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…
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