Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Modern History’
© Martin Jernberg, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
The East India Company’s top agent in India was also the man who put Calcutta on the world map.
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© Kenneth Allen, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
An English sailor became the target of the first worldwide manhunt following an audacious act of piracy.
By Thomas M. Hemy (1852-1931), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.
From the Imperial War Museums collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.
Photo by Captain Tanner, from the Imperial War Museums via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens took his wartime protest straight to the top.
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A maths prodigy from Madras became so wrapped up in his sums that he forgot to pass his examinations.