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“I like an Englishman to look like an Englishman, and beards are foreign and breed vermin. Also depe
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St Crispin’s day, 1415: Henry V stands victorious, after a tremendous defeat of the French forces at
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“Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more, we'll close the wall up with our English dead [
The year is 1403, and the Usurper King, Henry IV, faces a seemingly insurmountable challenge to his
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In Sussex, in 1912, men quarrying in a gravel pit near Piltdown village turned up a human skull. Acc
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“It was violence that made the revolution revolutionary”.The storming of the Bastille is viewed by m
In the summer of 1788, a monstrous storm swept across France, wiping out the crucial wheat harvest.
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In August 1785 a shocking affair came to light which would prove so detrimental to the reputation an
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