Subjects

Modern History

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The Return of Plum Pudding

The Puritans said it was unfit for God-fearing men, but George I thought it fit for a King.

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Byron and Hercules

Lord Byron could not have hoped for a better omen in his support for the oppressed people of Greece.

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The Third Siege of Missolonghi

The cruelty of the Ottoman Turks so shocked Europe that the tide of opinion turned against them.

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The Anglo-Zanzibar War

It lasted barely forty minutes, but it brought slavery to an end in the little island territory.

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Armistice Day

Armistice Day is the anniversary of the end of the First World War on the 11th of November, 1918.

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The Calendar ‘English Style’

An English monk warned of a flaw in the world’s most widely-used calendar.