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Discovery and Invention

Earl Stanhope and the Re-Invention of Printing

Britain never knew she was a nation of voracious readers until printing entered the steam age.

Classical History

First Contact

Julius Caesar came over from France expecting to silence the noisy neighbours, but things did not go according to plan.

Winston Spencer Churchill

Winston Churchill’s Final Journey

The heroic and charismatic statesman’s last journey was replete with echoes of his extraordinary life.

Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)

Captain Moorsom’s ‘Revenge’

The Whitby man held his nerve to keep five enemy ships busy at Trafalgar, and subsequently led Nelson’s funeral procession.

Angevin & Plantagenet Era

King Henry II

The great-grandson of William the Conqueror, whose knights assassinated Thomas Becket and whose family harried him to an early grave.

Stuart Era

The Love of the Lindseys

Young Montague Bertie, Lord Willougby, tended his dying father behind enemy lines.