Birth of a Freedom Fighter
Nat Turner, leader of one of the most significant rebellions in the antebellum South, was born on 2 October 1800.
Mathew Lyons
Death of a Medieval Polymath
Hildegard of Bingen died on 17 September 1179.
The First Svengali
Svengali appeared as a character in Trilby, released as a book in the US on 8 September 1894.
Portrait of the Portrait Artist
Holbein’s creative life during three decades of extraordinary political, religious and intellectual turbulence.
End of the Edge of the World
The last islanders living on the small archipelago of St Kilda were evacuated on 29 August 1930.
Death of a Philosopher Queen
Ahilyabai Holkar, queen of the Malwa kingdom, died on 13 August 1795.
One Election Too Many
The Representation of the People Act, which received royal assent on 30 July 1948, abolished university constituencies.
The Liberator’s Saviour is ‘Buried’
154 years after her death, Manuela Sáenz was given a state burial on 5 July 2010.
The Film Churchill Tried to Kill
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp premiered on 10 June 1943.
The End of a European Union
The Kalmar Union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden came to an end on 6 June 1523.