Cartoon William Wallace but make it "accurate". When I was wee, I went on a school trip to the Wallace Monument, where we found out he wasn't an anti-Semitic Australian.

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Absolutely love these new Irish stamps featuring front man 🖤

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Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was the unofficial leader of the abolitionist movement in Britain. With the London Committee, he lobbied Parliament for 2 decades to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade in the

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John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child

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1803: Irish rebellion of 1803: In opposition to Acts of Union 1800, Robert Emmet led an armed outbreak with working classes, that was easily suppressed. Thomas Paliser Russell & James "Jemmy" Hope also leaders of it. Lasted just 1 day! . . .

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Widojest Week 2019 | Day 4: Fairy Tale

“I had to,” he croaks back, voice foreign and miles away. “My parents… they were going to kill my parents.”

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Old Royal High School as seen from Regent Road, a 19th century neoclassical doric style building on Calton Hill in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland and landmark monument of the Greek Revival architecture in Scotland.

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“...to truly understand the American outlook in the 18th Century, it is necessary to learn about the British conflicts of the 17th Century - especially the English Civil War.”
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Learn more in Ch 19: The (follow link in bio)
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The artist Archibald Rees Griffiths (1902-1971) who made an important contribution to the artistic response to the traumatic experience of mining communities between the two world wars, died 1971 https://t.co/3lsV7KCE6O Image:

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in 1570 James Stewart was assassinated in Linlithgow. He had ruled Scotland as regent since the abdication of his half sister in 1567. He was shot by a supporter of Mary in the first recorded assassination by firearm in history

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It's Mary Prince's 230th birthday - the first woman to publish a slave narrative in Britain

Just one of the many texts we study on the MA in

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1942: 45 technicians from Jamaica & Bahamas arrived in Bolton to work in wartime factories (& were welcomed with a civic reception)

Read a report about their work & conditions (by a West Indian visitor from the ILO) at https://t.co/4URUQGqcfr

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From 'Punch' magazine (Dec 5, 1857). The writer here is outing something the aristocracy had been trying very hard to cover up. This article is dated at the end of the Clearances.

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1708: A French naval squadron attempted unsuccessfully to land James Francis Edward Stuart and a 5000-strong army on the Firth of Forth. Bad weather and the presence of a Royal Navy squadron under Admiral George Byng, prevented the landing

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CELTIC QUEEN SETS FIRE TO LONDON https://t.co/xIhnaOkPEw from Timeline of British History

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