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Writing Boxes: The portable writing desk

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

1812 at Sea: The humbling of the Royal Navy

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Red Barn Murder: William Corder's Killing of Maria Marten

By: Martin Gosling

Scottish Highlander: During the French and Indian War

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The English War of Jenkins' Ear: The War Against Spain Over a Single Severed Ear

By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

Fusilier Cooper: A Redcoat during the Peninsular War

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Claude Duval (1643-70): The Dashing Highwayman

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The First Boer War: The Anglo-Boer War of 1881

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Victorian Funeral: & The Victorian Undertaker

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Zulu: Sir Stanley Baker’s Cinematic Masterpiece

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Battle of Khambula: Turning point of the 1879 Zulu War

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Fuzzy-Wuzzy: The Beja Warriors

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Queen Victoria’s Christening: How Queen Victoria Got Her Name

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Death of General Gordon: The Fall of Khartoum 1885

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Gordon Relief Expedition: First Ride of the British Camel Regiment

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

General Charles Gordon: The Life and Death of Chinese Gordon

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Birth of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria’s Father and Mother

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Birth of the Victoria Cross: Britain’s Highest Award for Gallantry

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Battle of Vinya-Njara: Henry Morton Stanley’s Most Desperate Moment

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

William Booth: Founder of The Salvation Army

By: George Frederick Winter

The Crystal Palace Exhibition: The First of the Victorian World's Great Exhibitions

By: Karen Jordan

The Lancashire Cotton Famine: The Liverpool Connection with the Confederate Army

By: Joy Levesley

Isandlwana: The Zulus crush the British Redcoats

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The London Necropolis Railway: Last ride to the Brookwood Cemetery

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Killhope Lead Mine, Weardale: In Search of the Lead Mining Heritage of Northern England

By: Dave McFadzean

Jack the Ripper: History: Infamous Serial Killer Terrorized 19th Century London

By: Scott Hayden

The Luddites: General Ludd’s fight against the Industrial Revolution

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Secret Shame of Penny Lane: The dark chapter of history behind the name of a famous street

By: Brian Baker

The Tolpuddle Martyrs: Six men who kick-started the trade union movement

By: Brian Baker

Jack The Ripper: Ultimate Unsolved Mystery

By: Marjorie Dorfman

The Ripper of Whitechapel: Ultimate Unsolved Mystery

By: Marjorie Dorfman

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: Victorian History's Greatest Detective

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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