The Death of Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts died on November 25th, 1748, aged 74, in Stoke Newington, Hackney.
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Founding of the Darien Colony
The Darien Colony was founded by Scottish emigrants on November 3rd, 1698. But it all went horribly wrong.
Kosovo's Conflict
The troubled history of the region, and the deep-rooted antagonisms between the different ethnic groups laying claim to it.
Forty Years of the Victorian Society
Rebecca Daniels celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Victorian Society, which set out in 1958 to save nineteenth-century architectural gems from destruction.
The English Context of the British Civil Wars
John Adamson argues that the importance of the Celtic fringe in the events of the 1640s has been exaggerated.
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Jane Ohlmeyer argues that the English Civil War was just one of an interlocking set of conflicts that encompassed the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century
Internet History
The latest multimedia innovations and their usefulness to historians.
A Taste of Ashes
Jay Winter describes the mixed emotions of combatants and non-combatants at the moment the Great War ended.
The Commonwealth in Korea
Brian Catchpole remembers the sufferings and heroism of the Commonwealth Division in the first major conflict of the Cold War.
The First WH Smith Railway Bookstall
Seeing the potential of the new technology, William Henry Smith opened his first railway bookstall on 1 November 1848.