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 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