In 1692, a girl of fourteen was left to defend her father’s manor from angry Iroquois raiders.
byEdith Louise Marsh1870-1960
Indian History
Equal before the Law
Queen Victoria assured her subjects that there were no second-class citizens in her eyes.
byQueen Victoria of the United Kingdom1819-1901
The First World War
The Gallipoli Landings
By 1915, the Allies were struggling to break through Germany’s Western Front,
and so began looking for another line of attack.
byClay Lane
Indian Myths
The Goat and the Lion
A herd of goats is threatened by a pride of lions, and
it falls to one brave billy to face the danger alone.
byP. V. Ramaswami Raju?-1897
The First World War
A Great Human Effort
The Gallipoli landings in 1915 did not achieve the Admiralty’s goals,
but for John Masefield they remained one of the proudest moments of the Great War.
byJohn Masefield1878-1967
Sport and Sportsmen
Hooked
The great British public leaves a German tourist speechless during a county match at the Oval in London.
