America’s new Biden administration moved to put anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman on the American $20 bill last month, after Donald Trump previously delayed the decision, branding it ‘pure political correctness’. This is a remarkable step in the right...
George Orwell died on the 21st January 1950. He forecast a world where governments controlled people’s lives completely, with his most famous warning given in the form of the dystopian novel 1984. So can we look around today and claim he was right? Or, does it remain...
Who Was Samuel Pepys? Samuel Pepys (pronounced ‘Peeps’) was a British public servant, naval admiral and later MP, who was born to tailor John Pepys and his wife Margaret, on Fleet Street, London in February 1633. In 1642, when Samuel was nine years-old, the English...
Alexandrina Victoria was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 20th June 1837 until her death in January 1901. Her reign lasted 63 years and 7 months, considerably longer than that of her predecessors, consequently the era she reigned...
England 1603: A paranoid Scottish King comes to the English throne. Believing a coven of witches were trying to kill him, he develops an obsession with Witchcraft, leading to the killing of thousands by fire, noose and torture. He also has a taste for theatre and...
It is now 954 years since Duke William of Normandy’s successful invasion of England. You might wonder why we still learn about it in school and why it features on some GCSE History exams. If so, well, the truth is that the Norman Conquest still affects us today....
