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On 6 January 1066, Harold Godwinson was crowned as the new King of England. This sparks a succession crisis which will lead to the Norman conquest of England. ⁠
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2023-01-09

112 years ago today, there was a farewell ball for the in Dunedin, New Zealand. I had good fun imagining what that would have been like ...
https://t.co/3WdNTsEybl

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2022-11-28

7 September 1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.

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2022-09-08

4 for 1! in 1835, the first Great Moon Hoax article was published; in 1836, Bret Harte was born; in 1840, Kate Dickens was christened; and in 1868, Dickens wrote to trusses makers for two pairs of elastic stockings https://t.co/kGwl4BU07N.

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2022-08-25

On this day in 1940, Howard Florey and his team of scientists, including Ernst Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders published their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

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2022-08-24

On this day in history - 1860 to be precise - the famous Oxford Evolution Debate took place at the Oxford University Museum, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

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2022-06-30

A watercolour now in the (1; https://t.co/PmsvpexZl8) seems to show some artistic licence, with PC Brown catching Oxford in the act (2) and a mounted Met officer present (3), neither of which were mentioned at the trial.

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2022-06-10

the wonderful Peter Capaldi was born. He is best know for being the 12th Doctor Who and the sweary Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It. You can buy this fab portrait on our website as a print, clothing, mugs.......go and have a look!
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2022-04-15

October 19, 1752: Benjamin Franklin described his famous “kite experiment” in the Pennsylvania Gazette.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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2021-10-20

in 1961 the first manned flight took off, with cosmonaut Yuru inside.

Soviet propaganda made use of this huge milestone at the height of the space race – take a look at some of the iconic here.

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2021-04-12

June 25, 1685 Overnight Oglethorpe's patrol returns to Bath with the news that Monmouth is at Pensford. Seeing the danger, Feversham rushes to Bristol arriving at around 2am & starts fortifying the southern gate

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2020-06-25

All About Royal Families: OTD - 30 May 1431 - Death of Joan of Arc: https://t.co/oMS1pYaJ6Z

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2020-05-30

May 14, 1685 the news of Argyll's departure from Orkney arrives in Edinburgh. It is sent by fast packet boat to Whitehall. The Militia is mobilised and Scotland prepares for war.

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2020-05-14

1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth. It would lead to the fall of an empire and the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

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2020-03-04

There’s nothing as cool and as a bottle of which introduced its fizzy freshness to the world on this day 128 years ago!

🎨 - “Cola Girl” by Katerina Chep

Shop This Print: https://t.co/me7uq2rBug

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2020-01-30

fans! Check out these cute parodies of John, Paul, George & Ringo on released in 1969.

Shop Beatles Art: https://t.co/KYuOgAHjbc

🎨 - “Come Together” by Amit Shimoni
“Abbey” by CHAN-CHAN
“Puggy Road” & “Sloth Abbey Road” by Big Nose Work

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2019-09-26

Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael was born on this day in 1483.

What's your favourite of Raphael’s work?

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2018-03-28