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The musician and harpist Thomas David Llewelyn (Llewelyn Alaw) was born at 1828 https://t.co/5RKwoQs2VE

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2019-06-25

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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2019-04-02

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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2019-01-23

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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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2018-10-02

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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2018-06-19

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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2018-05-14

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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2018-03-23

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

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2016-03-02