On This Week – 9th January 2017
9th – Today in 1793, Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon ascent in North America. He...
Read More
Author: Margaret Roberts
On This Week – 2nd January 2017
2nd – the first Test match hat-trick by Australia’s Fred Spofforth occurred in 1879 –...
Read More
On This Week – 26th December 2016
26th – The boxing world was horrified when Texan Jack Johnson became the first black heavyweight...
Read More
On This Week – 19th December 2016
19th – In London on this day in 1924 the last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was sold. In 1932 the BBC...
Read More
Hidden Histories Part 1 – It’s not WHAT you Research but the WAY you Research…
The study of history could be regarded as a journey to find the centre of the mysterious maze that...
Read More