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Sport and Sportsmen

The Ashes of English Cricket

How the cricketing rivalry between England and Australia got its name.

Modern History

The Peninsular War

Napoleon’s six-year-long campaign (1808-1814) to bring Spain and Portugal into his united Europe was frustrated by Arthur Wellesley.

Discovery and Invention

Jesty and Jenner’s Jab

Benjamin Jesty and Edward Jenner continue to save millions of lives because they listened to an old wives’ tale.

Tudor Era

The Nine-Day Queen

Lady Jane Grey’s accession was almost instantly overturned.

Abolition of Slavery

The Bombardment of Algiers

For two centuries, human traffickers had stolen English men, women and children for the slave-markets of the Arab world.

Lives of the Saints

St Bede of Wearmouth and Jarrow

The mild-mannered, artistic monk was nevertheless a founding father of the English nation.