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	Vanessa Collingridge and the team answer listener鈥檚 historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 鈥榤ake鈥� history.


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	For details of programmes from April 2009 onwards, visit the new Making History episode page.


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0-9 听 100 Years Of The Showmen鈥檚 Guild Knockout Football Cup 1750 Earthquake - Impact Of Earth Tremors In London, The 1759 鈥� A Turning Point In British History? 1948 Olympics And The Athletes' Accommodation - Where Did The Athletes Stay If They Had No Village Of Their Own? 1958 In Tiger Bay


A Abolition Of The Slave Trade - Your Emails Academic Regalia Admiral Vernon And The Battle For Carthagena Adolf Hitler In Liverpool 鈥� Was He Ever There? Adoption In The 19th Century Adrian 1V - The Only English Pope Aerofilms Photographic Library Agnes Harkness, Heroine Of Matagordary Alexander The Great - His Military Achievements Alfred Lucas Alfred Mangena - Founding Father Of The African National Congress Alfred Piccaver 鈥� English Tenor And Son Of Vienna Ally Sloper - His Rise To Stardom As First Great Comic Strip Hero. Amy Johnson (1903鈥�41) 鈥� Pioneer Aviator. An English Wife In Berlin Angels Of Mons 鈥� The Story Of The Great War Legend, The Anglo Saxon Fashion Anglo-Norman Dictionary Anniversary Of The Abolition Of Slavery From Bristol, The Anniversary Of The Abolition Of Slavery From Liverpool., The Anniversary Of The Abolition Of Slavery From The Isle Of Man, The Antarctic Northern Party - The Survivors Of Captain Scott's Expedition., The Aristotle's Midwife's Vademecum Arthur Mee's Children's Newspaper Aspects Of A Soldier鈥檚 Life - White Breeches, Drumming Out And The Riot Act. Aston Hall In The Civil War - The Royalist Stronghold Besieged In 1643 Aston Villa Football Club - Methodists 鈥� Villa's Role In Forming The Football League. Astronomical Sightings Of Parson Holland, The Ayrshire Embroidery


B Balbo's Italian Air Armada - A Fleet Of Flying-Boats In The 1930s Banknote Engravers 鈥� And Their Secret Work In Wartime. Barbary Corsairs, The Barber-Surgeons, The Barrow Mump Bath Stone 鈥� The Stone That Created Bath Battle Of Corunna And The Army鈥檚 New Boots, The Battle Of Corunna In The Peninsular War, The Battle Of Great Severn 鈥� Colonial America And The English Civil War , The Battle Of Knocknanuss, 1647, The Battle Of Waterloo Boxer Heroes 鈥� Remembered In A Nottinghamshire Churchyard, The Bavarian Chapel, Warwick Street, London W1 Bayeux Tapestry In Reading, The BC And AD, And The 24-Hour Day 鈥� When Were They Introduced? Belvederes - The Look-Out Towers Of Maldon. Watching For Ships From An Essex Port Benedict Arnold - Hero Or Traitor In The American Wars Of Independence Benin Expedition Of 1897. A Sorry Chapter In British Imperial History , The Berwick Upon Tweed House Bicycle - Tyres, Pedals And Chains, The Big Bertha - The Big Howitzer Used By The Germans To Attack Li猫ge In W.W.1. Big Pit: National Mining Museum Of Wales - Candidate For Museum Of The Year Billy Butlin鈥檚 1960 Walk Billy Marshall - The Scottish King Of The Gypsies Bisley Boy 鈥� The Tale Of A Boy Said To Have Been Substituted For Queen Elizabeth I, The Blenheim Bombers Crashed In France In June 1940 Blue And White Pottery Blue Ribbon Army 鈥� The Temperance Movement Imported From America, The Bogus Curate Of Talland 鈥� Why Couples Married Twice In The Early 1800s, The Bones For Fertiliser Born In A Gaol - Prison Records Boudicca鈥檚 Last Battle 鈥� The Site Of Her Final Defeat By The Romans. Breakwater Fort, Plymouth - The Palmerston Battery At The Mouth Of The Sound, The Breast Hole At Tean Hall Mill, The Brick Tax, The Bricks Brighton Camp 鈥� The 1795 Mutiny Brighton Viaduct Wartime Bombing British Assault On Finland British Militia 鈥� And Why The Rutland Militia Were Based At Winchester In 1805 , The British Museum Lottery, 1753 - The Scandalous Lottery That Launched The National Treasure House, The Broad Gauge Railway 鈥� And Castle Hill Station On The Wycombe Line Broch Man Brochs - Iron Age Buildings In Scotland Bronowski鈥檚 Bricks 鈥� The Smokeless Fuel Pioneered By The Famous Scientist, Academic And Broadcaster Bruce Bairnsfather 鈥� Creator Of The Old Bill Cartoons Brunel At Abermawr Brunel鈥檚 Atmospheric Railway Burning Boats At Gravesend - Symbolism Or Hooliganism? By Jingo - The Origin Of The Expression


C Caledonian Forest, The Canadian Spitfire Pilot Louis Cochand And RAF Holmsley South Cappers' Guild - In 16th-Century Coventry, The Captain James Weddell 鈥� 19th-Century Antarctic Explorer Captain Jean-Jacques Lucas. Captain Pugwash And The Concertina Caroline Chisholm 鈥� 'The Emigrant鈥檚 Friend' Cartography Of 18th And 19th Century Sealers And Whalers Carved Stone Balls Of Aberdeenshire, The Chancel Repair Liability Charfield Train Crash, 1928, The Chariot - The First War Machine, The Charles Atlas (1893 - 1972). The World's Most Perfectly Developed Man? Charles Darwin 鈥� And How Mid-Victorian Britain Reacted To His Revolutionary Ideas. Charles Miller - The Father Of Brazilian Football? Chatterley Explosion 鈥� A Mining Accident In 1870, The Children Strafed By Enemy Planes In World War Two Children's Newspapers Church Lads' Brigade City Of Truro Or Flying Scotsman - Which Was The First To Reach 100mph? Civil War Camp Followers Clara Grant, The Bundle Woman Of Bow Coal And Wine Tax Posts 鈥� In A Ring Around London Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum 鈥� The Victorians And Madness., The Colonel J贸zef Beck - The Polish Foreign Minister Who Negotiated With Neville Chamberlain Colossus Of Rhodes 鈥� Did It Really Stand Astride The Island鈥檚 Main Harbour?, The Common Graves Concealed Garments Conkers - Why They Were Collected For Use In Two World Wars Convict Transportation From India Cornish Coats Of Arms Cornish Wrecking Coronation Park, Dartmouth 鈥� A Ships鈥� Graveyard Cotton Famine - The Crisis In The Lancashire Cotton Industry In The 1860s., The Cotton Machine Fitters Working In Tsarist Russia Count Gustave Batthyany 鈥� Why He Gave Bridlington A Lifeboat In The 1860s. Countess Of Huntingdon鈥檚 Connexion 鈥� Founder Of A Branch Of Methodism. , The Coventry Road Transport Museum - Candidate For Museum Of The Year Crane Park And The Gunpowder Plot Crater Creation Of MI5, The Cro-Magnon Man Cro-Magnons 鈥� Where Did This Early Prehistoric People Come From?, The Croydon Typhoid Outbreak Of 1937 Culloden Cycle Corps - On Your Bike To The Boer War, The


D Daily Express Dragonfly Air Crash, 1937 - An Aeronautical Mystery, The Daily Mail Broadcasting Yacht 鈥� First Would-Be Radio Pirate Ship., The Daisy Dormer - Music-Hall Star. Daniel Of Beccles And The Urbanus Magnus Dartmoor Stone Rows Davy Jone's Locker Defender Of The Faith - F.D. Or Fidei Defensor On Coins. Dental Clearances Development Of The Kilt And Highland Costume, The Deviant Dead - Clues On A Map , The Digging Up Bones - Archaeology And The Law Disappearance Of Raoul Wallenberg 鈥� Rescuer Of Jews From The Gas Chambers, The Dockside Dandies Of Lowestoft, The Doggerland, Doggett's Coat And Badge Dr Dimock And The Wisbech Riots, 1913 - Medical Resentment And The Creation Of The Welfare State Dr Robert Armstrong - Gaelic Lexicographer Dr Roderigo Lopez 鈥� Shakespeare鈥檚 Inspiration For Shylock Dragging Swords 鈥� The Naval Ceremonial Tradition Duddeston Viaduct, The Dunsterforce 鈥� The First World War Allied Military Expedition In Persia Dynosphere 鈥� The Motorised Monowheel Of The 1930s , The


E 听 Early Electricity Distribution - How Power Was Sent To The Consumer In The Early Days Early Postal Service - How The Post Got From A To B, The Early Stained Glass - Made In Jarrow Or Monkwearmouth? Early Submarines - What It Was Like To Serve On Them Ebenezer Scrooge Edinburgh To London Walk Edith Appleton鈥檚 Diaries Edward Bransfield, 19th-Century Sea Captain And Antarctic Explorer Edwardian Man In The Iron Mask., The Eleanor Everingham Elisabethville - The Belgian Village In County Durham. Elsie Mackay - West Over The Waves Empire Settlement Act End Of The Highwaymen, The Environmental Threat To Welsh Coastal Archaeology Espionage During The Franco- Prussian War Execution Of 'Valerie Givanne', The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster Eyemouth Fort 鈥� Britain鈥檚 First 鈥楾race Italienne鈥� Fort Eyemouth Witch-Hunts


F Farnham Royal 鈥� How It Got Its Royal Tag Fenland Salterns Filey Fishermen鈥檚 Choir 鈥� And Methodist Revivalism, The Fire On Board The SS Sarah Sands - Drama In The Indian Ocean, 1857 Firing Of Breadsall Church 鈥� Were Suffragettes Responsible?, The Fisher Theatres, The Flannan Light - The Mystery Of The Scottish Lighthouse. Flintlock Guns - How They Worked Floods Of 1947, The Flying Flea 鈥� 1930s Flying Craze, The Follow-Up Item On Winifred Atwell鈥檚 Other Piano Follow-Up: Chariot Racing Follow-Up: Chariots Follow-Up: Collecting Conkers For The War Effort Follow-Up: Gandhi At The 1931 Round Table Conference In London Follow-Up: Lincoln's Connection With The Tank Follow-Up: Molly Dancing In The Manchester Area Follow-Up: The Pneumatic Tyre Forest Of Bowland Forgotten Dark Ages Ship Burial At Snape, A Fotheringhay Castle 鈥� And Its Link To Mary Queen Of Scots. Francisco De Miranda - The Venezuelan Revolutionary With A Yorkshire Wife Frarys Of Wrighton, The French 脡migr茅s At St Pancras 鈥� Catholics Who Fled The French Revolution Fulford To Waltham Abbey Walk


G Gaelic Mapping Gandhi And Chaplin - Could A Schoolboy Really Have Met Gandhi And Chaplin On A Street Corner In 1931? Gandhi In Britain In 1931 - Bognor And Beyond Gaol Fever - Typhus Or Typhoid? Gateshead Fire, 1854, The Gawcott Uprising 鈥� A Farmworkers鈥� Strike Over Low Wages In 1867, The Gays And Lesbians In The British Forces During World War Two General Karslake And The Quetta Earthquake, 1935. George Hudson, The Railway King George Jackson Churchward - The Great Western Railway Engineer George Orwell鈥檚 Grave 鈥� Why Was He Buried In Oxfordshire? German Occupation Of The Channel Islands, The German Seaplane Over Dorset In 1940, A German War Graves Girl Pat. Grimsby Fishing Boat That Vanished, The Glasgow Humane Society - Rescuing People From The River Since 1790, The Gloucestershire Woollen Cloth Industry 鈥� Its Rise And Fall, The Goodwin Sands 鈥� Who Were They Named After?, The Graf Zeppelin 鈥� Visiting Britain In The 1930s, The Great Bed Of Ware, The Great Gale, Bridlington 1871-鈥� When 30 Ships Were Lost., The Great Redan - The Fortress Defending Sebastopol In The Crimean War, The Great Schism - How The Christian Church Split 1000 Years Ago., The Great Storm And The River Ouse At Newhaven, The Great Thames Disaster, The Greenwich Foot Tunnel 鈥� Why It Was Built In 1902., The Gunpowder Factories Guns Of Gun Hill, The Gunsgreen House And Smuggling


H Halifax Slasher, The Halls Of Science Hallsville - The Origin Of The Name Of An Area Of London's Dockland Hampshire Tobacco Farming Hampton Court Conference 1604 Hanseatic Cog 鈥� Medieval Tramp Ship, The Happisburgh Man Harbin China Hartley Colliery Disaster Of 1862., The Havering Palace 鈥� A Royal House In Essex Health And 18th-Century Country Houses 鈥� How Accurate Are TV Costume Dramas? Hearth Tax And Window Tax 鈥� Two Long Gone Ways Of Raising Revenue. Hebridean Connections Hector Protector - The Origin Of The Nursery Rhyme Hellfire Club Of Dublin, The Henry 'Inky' Stephens - The Inventor Of Blue-Black Ink Henry Morton Stanley 鈥� The Background He Tried To Hide Hexham Massacre 鈥� 51 Deaths As Militia Opened Fire., The Hidden Treasures - The Pitt Rivers Museum In Oxford Hidden Treasures In The British Museum Hidden Treasures Of St Andrew's, Wiveliscombe Hiding Places Highland Clearances 鈥� A Victim Culture?, The Highland Controversy, The Highwayman Known As "Brockley Jack", The Hiram Codd - The Man Whose Bottles Revolutionised Fizzy Drinks. Hiring Fairs 鈥� Forerunners Of Job Centres History In Schools History In Schools History Of A House History Of Church Spires, The History Of Passports, The History Of Smoking History Of Speedway, The HMS Bulwark And HMS Princess Irene - How They Exploded In W.W.1. HMS Condor 鈥� The Sloop That Disappeared In The Pacific Off Canada HMS Montague 鈥� The Battleship That Went Aground On Lundy Island Holidays With The Third Reich Homeopathy As An 鈥楢lternative鈥� Medicine Horsehoes - Who First Thought Of Shoeing A Horse? House History - A Victorian Shooting Lodge How Depressed Were The 1930s? Huddersfield Workhouse Scandal., The Hull Friary And Baltic Timber - Why Did Medieval England Import Wood To Make Coffins? Hundred Rolls And The Liber Niger 鈥� Mediaeval Documents And Their Uses Hungary Dismembered 鈥� The Trianon Effect, 1920 Husker Pit Disaster, 1838 - Why 26 Children Died, The


I Imperial Camel Corps 鈥� Going To War On A Ship Of The Desert, The In Search Of Franklin Incredibile Peking - Paris Motor Rally Of 1907, The Indian Partition, 1947 - How The Boundaries Were Drawn Up Infected Blanket Scandal Of 1903, The Introduced Species Introduced Species 鈥� The Coypu Inuit Off Aberdeen - Could They Have Been Seen Over 200 Years Ago? Iron Age Weaving Iron Farming Isaac Ewer, Regicide 鈥� One Of The Signatories To Charles I鈥檚 Death Warrant Italian Chapel On Orkney Italian Ultras, The


J Jacobites And Tilbury Fort 鈥� The Culloden Connection, The James Fitzjames, Duke Of Berwick 鈥� The British Duke Who Led The French Against The British Jeanette Expedition, The Jersey - What's So Significant About 1204? John Edmonstone, Influential Black Briton John Paul Jones - Father Of The American Navy John Ruskin鈥檚 Commune John Taylor, The Ancient Lead Miner - Could He Really Have Been 137? John Well鈥檚 Letter Johnny Briggs - Great Victorian Lancashire Cricketer Julian Calendar., The Julian Of Norwich 鈥� Mediaeval Mystic And Anchoress


K Katherine Naish - Chair-Maker To Royalty Keeping Cool In The Crystal Palace Keynsham Brass 鈥� Brass-Making In The Avon Valley. Khalid Sheldrake And The South Shields Port Riots - A Muslim Convert's Involvement In Race Riots King Canute (994-1035) King Harold 鈥� Did He Survive The Battle Of Hastings? King John鈥檚 Treasure 鈥� How It Came To Be Lost In The Wash King Zog In Buckinghamshire King鈥檚 German Legion And Bexhill 鈥� The German Soldiers Who Fought For Britain, The King鈥檚 Lynn Riot, 1852 鈥� Election Fervour Run Wild Knights Hospitaller - Builders Of A Village Church In Essex Knitted War Memorial Kurt - The German Bouncing Bomb.


L 听 Ladies Bridge, The Lady Godiva Lady Godiva Of Coventry - The Legend And Its Observance. Lambin Warrin Land Reclamation On The North Norfolk Coast 鈥� Why Cley Isn鈥檛鈥楴ext-The-Sea鈥� Last English King To Die In Battle, The Last Game At Highbury Lee Gap Horse Fair - Could This Be The Oldest Fair In The Country? , The Left Wing/Right Wing - The Origin Of The Political Terms Leigh Park Housing Estate, Hampshire Lewes Bonfire Night And Its Anti-Catholic Origins. Lidos Lieutenant Colonel L鈥橢tsrange Malone MP. Lieutenant Stillwell At Waterloo 鈥� A Green Jackets Officer Who Died In Battle Life In London After The Romans Lilian Lancaster, Victorian Cartographer Lillian Lancaster Liver Birds, The Liverpool Overhead Railway, The Llanelli Riots Of 1911 鈥� Troops Killed 2 Bystanders., The Local History Hero - Barry Williamson In Bristol Local History Hero - Brian Davies Of Pontypridd Museum Local History Hero - David Butcher, Chronicler Of The Lowestoft Fishing Industry Local History Hero - Gwyn Griffiths Of Pontypridd Local History Hero - Gwyn Griffiths Of Pontypridd Local History Hero - Neville Hortop In Conwy Local History Hero - Rob Orland And Son Stephen In Coventry Local History Hero - Brian Lambie, Founder Of Seven Museums In Biggar Local History Hero - Jasper Blake, Creator Of Cinderbury Iron Age Farm Local History Hero - Jim Walker And The Forth Railway Bridge Memorial Campaign Lodz Ghetto, Part 2, The Lollards Of Amersham - 16th-Century Religious Dissenters, The London Gazette - The History Of The Official Newspaper Of Record. , The London's Fish Business London's Underground Rivers Long Polish Walk, The Lord Palmerston And Queen Victoria 鈥� Why She Never Liked Him Lost Villages On The South Downs Lulu The Clown Lunar Society , The


M Madame Tussaud And Wax Sculpture Maharajah鈥檚 Wel, The Maid Of Lilliard鈥檚 Grave 鈥� The Story Of The Battle Of Ancrum, 1545, The Making Of The Bayeux Tapestry, The Making Of The Bayeux Tapestry., The Man In The Iron Mask., The Manchester Floods Of 1872, The Manchester May Day Tradition Of Molly Dancing, The Mapping Of The Ordnance Survey, The March To Kandahar, 1880 - Britain's (Successful) Afghan Adventure, The Margaret Catchpole And The River Orwell - How A Suffolk Housemaid Who Stole A Horse Became An East Anglian Folk Heroine. Margrit Ballegeer In The First World War Martineau VC Mary Robinson - The Prince Regent's First Mistress Maxim Machine-Gun - The Weapon That Changed War., The Maypole Dairy Mechanised Transport Corp Mediaeval Sheep Dairying In Suffolk Medieval Standards Of London - Supplying Water To The City, The Men Shaving - When It Became The Fashion Merlin's Swing - In The Pleasure Garden, Bath Michael Fairless 鈥� Who Was The 19th-Century Author Of The Roadmender? Mildenhall Treasure Millicent Fawcett Hall Miracle Of The Stockport Roses, The Moats Mole Of Edge Hill 鈥� Joseph Williamson, The Liverpool Tunneller, The Morecambe Bay Fish Traps Much Wenlock 鈥� Home Of The Modern Olympics Mummers鈥� Plays 鈥� The Origins Of The Traditional Folk Drama Muntjac Deer Murmansk Mutiny, The Music Of Babylon, The Mystery, The


N Narbonne 1907 National Theatre Of Wales Navvy Towns - The Shanty Settlements Erected For The Navvies Ned Kelly Nelson鈥檚 Avenger 鈥� The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Nelson News Of Nelson鈥檚 Death - How The News Got Back And To Where. Nicholaa De La Haye - Defender Of Lincoln Castle Norman Cross Napoleonic Eagle - Marking A French Prisoner-Of-War Camp, The Northumbrian Rock Art


O Oaks Colliery Disaster 鈥� The Biggest Mining Disaster In The 19th Century, The Oilseed Crushing - Hull's Great 19th-Century Industry Old Shirts Old Welsh In Scotland Olde Mitre - In London Or Cambridgeshire?. Why An Ancient Tavern Is Not Part Of The City Of London., The Oldest Operating Theatre In Europe Oliver Cromwell And The Drogheda Massacre. Oloudah Equiano 鈥� Former Slave, Abolitionist And Writer And His Cambridgeshire Connections Operation Polo, Hyderabad 1948 Origins Of British Counties - How Their Boundaries Were Decided, The Origins Of Race Walking, The Origins Of 'Whig' And 'Tory' Overarm Bowling In Cricket 鈥� Who Invented It? Ownership Of Community Land


P Painted Ceiling Of Huntingfield Church, Suffolk, The Palmerston And Sandringham 鈥� Did He Help Purchase The Royal Family鈥檚 Country Home? Panomphaeus Cult, The Paul Reynaud 鈥� Churchill鈥檚 French Counterpart. Paulinus, Early Christian Missionary Paying For The Grand Tour Peling To Paris 2007 On Two Wheels Perkin Warbeck 鈥� Impostor Or Prince? Picture Post, The Plague Pits Of London, The Platt鈥檚 Eyot 鈥� The Thames Island Which Was Once Home Of The Electric Boat Plough Monday And Molly Dancing Pochontas And Heacham Political Intelligence Department At Woburn Abbey Political Roots Of British Football Clubs, The Portable Antiquities Scheme - Fabulous Finds Day Potato Jones, The Welsh Gun-Runner In The Spanish Civil War Pounds And Pinfolds Prehistoric Forest At Abermawr, The Pre-WWI Gliding Clubs Prince Bishops Of Durham - The Powerful Mediaeval Prelates., The Prince Louis - Uncrowned King Of England Prince Monolulu 鈥� The Flamboyant Racecourse Tipster. Prison Hulks Protection Of Bank Customers In The 19th Century Provision For The Blind And Partially Sighted To Research Historical Documents


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R R38 Crash, 1921 - The Giant Airship Which Split In Two Over Hull, The Ramsey Abbey 鈥� The Forgotten Intellectual Powerhouse Of The Fens Reading Castle - Was There One? Red Arches Viaduct On Hampstead Heath, The Redoubt Fortresses And Martello Towers. Remnants Of An Army Repatriation Of Prisoners Of War Researching A Song Researching Black Family History Researching Catholic History Resuscitation Of Anne Green - After Being Hanged For Murder, The Richard Cobden - Free Trade Reformer And Great Briton. Richard Pickersgill 鈥� Captain Cook's Trusted Lieutenant Richard The Lionheart鈥檚 Death In France Robert Burns 鈥� His Philandering And The Moral Climate In Late 18th Century Scotland. Robert Dudley, Earl Of Leicester Robert Fitzroy 鈥� The Father Of Weather Forecasting Robert Nixon - The 15th-Century 'Cheshire Prophet' Rolling Of Drunken Duchesses, The Roman Baths - How They Were Kept Clean Roman Census - AD Zero Roman Citizenship 鈥� How It Was Acquired And Proved. Roman Forts In Lancashire Roman Forts Of The Saxon Shore Roman Roads - What The Romans Called The Roads They Built In Britain. Romans In Brazil? Romans In China - Did They Have Contact In Ancient Times? Rotuli Hundredorum Royal Navy Surgeon In The 19th Century, A Royal Schools Of Ulster, The Rye House Plot - The Failed Scheme To Assassinate Charles II., The


S Sable Island Sack Of Constantinople (1204) 鈥� Why The Crusade Turned On A Christian City, The Sake Deen Mahomed 鈥� The Indian Who Made His Fortune Massaging Regency Aristocratic Muscles. Samuel Cody - Forgotten Pioneer Of British Aviation History Samuel Morland (1625-95) 鈥� Inventor And Spy Sarah Kaye 鈥� Survivor Of The First Daylight Air Raid Sawney Bean 鈥� The Scottish Cannibal Saxon Primary School Scottish Monasteries 鈥� Were They Dissolved In The 16th Century?, The Sea Scouts On Coastal Watch Search For 鈥楢 Great Castle At Killingholme鈥� In North Lincolnshire, The Seaside Landladies Seaweed Industry Of South Uist Second World War Defences Sedition. Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, 1913, The Shackleton鈥� S Endurance Expedition 1914-1917 鈥� Was Chippy Mcneish An Unrecognised Hero? Shanghai Defence Force, 1927 鈥� The Army That Went Out East Sheffield And The Longitude Problem Shopping In The Middle Ages Short History Of Spam, A Short History Of The Apple, A Short Trousers For Boys - How Did The Fashion Come About? Short-Lived British Colony Designed As A Whaling Station., The Sigismund Rentzsch - 19th-Century Watchmaker. Sinking Of Duchess Of Buccleuch, 1842, The Sinking Of HMS Artemis, 1971 - The Submarine That Went Down In Gosport Harbour, The Sinking Of HMS Royal George, The Sinking Of The M/S Pilsudski 鈥� A Polish Troop Ship Mined In 1939, The Sinking Of The SS Daphne On The Clyde, 1883, The Sinking Of The SS Waratah In 1909, The Sinking Of The Wilhelm Gustloff 鈥� The Worst Maritime Disaster In History , The Sir Herbert Jekyll - Brother Of The Landscape Gardener Gertrude Jekyll Sir John Blundell Maple - Victorian Furniture Entrepreneur Sir John Cass - The Seventeenth-Century London Businessman And Philanthropist.. Sir John Tiptoft Sir Joseph Williamson, Charles II鈥檚 Secretary Of State. Sir Loin - A Joint Of Beef Knighted By James VI And I. Sir Seretse Khama - First President Of Botswana Skull And Cross Bones Slapton Sands Incident 鈥� The Exercise Tiger Disaster, 1944, The Slavery And The Monmouth Rebellion Smallpox Hospital At Grays 鈥� And Why It Was Soon Abandoned, The Smallpox Isolation Ships On The River Thames Smothering Snapshots From The Home League Socialist Sunday Schools South Africa's 1820 Settlers Southall Film Studios Spanish Armada And The Origins Of The 'Black Irish', The Spanish Armada, The Spartacus - The Story Of The Rebel Gladiator Special Extended Online Slavery Discussion Sporting Memorials SS Petriana 鈥� The Oil-Tanker That Caused An Oil Spill In Australia In 1903 SS Rostock - The German Hospital Ship Arrested In The Weeks After D-Day., The SS Strathallan - The Troopship Torpedoed With 4,000 Aboard St Augustine At Long Compton In Warwickshire St Brice鈥檚 Day Massacre, 1002 - Ethnic Cleansing Of Danes In England, The St Pancras Star Carr Star Of Bethlehem, The Steventon Causeway Stonehenge And Other Pre-Historic Sites . Storage Problems In Our Museums Stratford Martyrs - The 13 Protestants Who Were Burnt At The Stake, The Super-Cyclist Tommy Godwin Sweating Sickness - The Epidemic Which Killed Thousands In Tudor Times., The Swinton Industrial School - How Paupers Were Educated In 19th-Century Manchester, The Sword-Bearers At Agincourt


T Taking The King鈥檚 Shilling 鈥� Enlisting In Wellington鈥檚 Day Tanks - How They Were Introduced During World War One Teaching The Eighteenth Century Temperance Movement 鈥� Its Beginnings In Preston, Lancashire, And The Work Of Lady Rosalind Carlisle., The Thankful Villages - Where No Men Were Lost In WW1, The This Week: Allied Graves In Denneville From 1940 Thomas Cochrane - The Sea-Captain And Inspiration For Horatio Hornblower Thomas Highs 鈥� Underrated 18th-Century Cotton Industry Pioneer Thomas Inskip Thomas Lord 鈥� The Man Who Gave His Name To The Headquarters Of Cricket Thomas Maw, 18th Century Author And Gardener Thorpeness And The House In The Clouds - The Fantasy Holiday Village. Time And Tide Museum Of Great Yarmouth Life - Candidate For Museum Of The Year Tin Tabernacles. Tomb Of The Eagles , The Tommy Ward's Elephant - The Scrap Metal Firm That Sought Help From The Circus Totley Tunnel Tower Subway 鈥� The Tunnel That Tower Bridge Replaced., The Tracing Conscientious Objectors Transportation 1787 To 1868 Travelling Cinema At Lochwinnoch, The Trial By Combat Trial Of 16-Year-Old Mary Pyner, The Tristan Stone 鈥� Is It The Tristan Who Loved Isolde?, The Two Female Eighteenth-Century Pirates. Tyburn Convent


U 听 U-Boat By Westminster Bridge 鈥� What Happened To Surrendered U-Boats. Unification Of England, 927 AD 鈥� The Accomplishment Of King Athelstan? , The Uniform Of The Hussars


V Vatican Navy, The Veteran Soldiers In The British Army Against Napoleon - The Dad's Army Of Their Day? Victoria Hall Disaster Victorian Semi-Detatached House., A Victorian Working Week 鈥� How Its Cut In Hours Led To The British Weekend, The Vikings In The Med Vikings On The Wirral Villa Hvidore 鈥� Queen Alexandra鈥檚 Danish Retreat


W Waler Diana, The Wallace The Lion And Travelling Menageries Wartime Evacuation In Gibraltar 鈥� Why Evacuees Went To Casablanca Wartime Potato-Picking - Schoolchildren Involved In Agricultural Activities Water Towers Wavy Navy 鈥� The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, The Wellington鈥檚 Surgeon-General 鈥� Sir James Mcgrigor. Whalebone And Corsets. Industry That Changed The Shape Of The Body. Whaling In Poole What Became Of Republicans After The Spanish Civil War? What Happened To The R100? 鈥� The Rival To The Ill-Fated R101 Whatever Happened To Roman Roads? When Did The Great War End? Where Is King Harold Buried? Whitaker Wright White Slavery In The Western Isles Whittlesea Straw Bear. Who Drained The Fens? Who Owns Common Land Who Were The Jutes? Whore Harbour, Why Is Northumbria Not In The Domesday Book? Why Would A Victorian Have A Foreign Passport? Wicked Ernest 鈥� A Royal Scandal In 1810 Wickham Psychiatric Hospital Wife-Selling - In The 18th Century. Wild Humphrey Kynaston - The Cave Dwelling Highwayman. William Blake鈥檚 Grave And The Old Dissenters鈥� Burial Ground In London. William Blyth - The Paglesham Smuggler William George Manley William Hirst - Leeds Woollen Industry Pioneer William Walker, The Winchester Diver Winchester Cathedral Wine Growing In Britain Winifred Atwell鈥檚鈥極ther鈥� Piano 鈥� The Popular Star Of The Fifties Winifred Spooner Woad (Isatis Tinctoria) Woking Invalid Prison, The Woking Mosque - The First Purpose-Built Mosque In Britain. Women Of Whitby - Were They Skilled Navigators? Women鈥檚 Timber Corp, The Women's Library, The Workhouses And Poorhouses Of 19th-Century Britain, The World War One Medals Online - How To Find Out What Your Ancestor Did In The Great War Wykamol


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