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Dec 19, 2024 | 
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
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Remembered for: Conspiring against James VI and I and planning to blow up the House of Lords. Every year on 5 November people mark the anniversary of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot. Family: Guy Fawkes’s father, Edward Fawkes, worked for the Church of England, and his mother was named Edith. In 1568, before Guy was born, Edith gave birth to a daughter who died several weeks later. Fawkes had two sisters who lived into adulthood, named Anne and Elizabeth.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
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2 November1917: The Balfour Declaration (named after British foreign secretary Balfour) supports Jewish settlement in Palestine3 November1957: Russians launch Sputnik IIOn board is the dog Laika, the first known living animal to travel in space. 4 November1839: Chaos ensues in the Newport RisingIn the late 1830s, south Wales was not a happy place.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
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Read more | What is the history of Halloween? From medieval hauntings to Victorian messages from the dead, explore ten ghost stories from history…The haunting of the Manor House at Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, began simply enough with the inexplicable banging of doors. A groom said he had seen an apparition of its former owner, Lord Stawell. Mary and William Ricketts had purchased the manor in 1765, and soon began to regret it.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
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When did we start celebrating Halloween? Halloween’s origins can be traced back to the seventh century, when Pope Boniface IV established All Saints’ Day on 13 May, to honour saints who had reached heaven. However, in the eighth century, this feast day was moved to 1 November. Upon this change, the day before it – 31 October – became known as All Hallows’ Eve, or Halloween.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
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In the first recorded rugby match under floodlights, held at the Yew Street Ground in Salford, Broughton beat local rivals Swinton. The 23-year-old Elise Deroche made her first solo flight, in a Voisin biplane at Chalons, France. Five months later she became the first woman to hold a pilot's licence. Dr Hawley Crippen was found guilty of murdering his wife and sentenced to death. Four days later his lover, Ethel le Neve, was tried and found not guilty as an accessory after the fact.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
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Prehistory refers to the period of human existence before the development of written records. In Britain, that lasted until the Roman invasion. The Stone Age, beginning with the use of the earliest stone tools, saw humans transition from nomadic hunter-gatherers in the Palaeolithic, to the end of the Ice Age around 12,000 years ago when Britain was first inhabited, to settled agricultural communities during the Neolithic thousands of years later.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
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