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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Hernán Cortés – 2 December 1547
Read more“He came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns, Looking for the new world in that palace in…
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Jane TomlinsonHarper Lee publishes To Kill A Mockingbird – 11 July 1960
No CommentsRead more“…Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”…
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Jane TomlinsonJoseph Nicéphore Niépce and the first photograph
Read moreLook at the camera and say ‘cheese’ and ‘thank you’ to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce who died on this day in…
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Jane TomlinsonDr John Alexander Tomlinson: obituary
Read morePlant pathologist, virologist, saviour of the British watercress industry, BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc My father, who died on Tuesday 12…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Captain Robert Falcon Scott – 29 March 1912
Read moreIn the 1960s space was the final frontier. But just 50 years earlier, the final frontier was the South Pole.…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Marie Stopes – 2 October 1958
Read more“I have some things to say about sex, which, so far as I am aware, have not yet been said…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Emmeline Pankhurst – 14 June 1928
Read moreToday, we remember one of the most important British women of the 20th century who died on this day, 1928.…
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Jane TomlinsonThe burning of Joan of Arc – 30 May 1431
Read more“Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.” – Mark…
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Jane TomlinsonThe beheading of Anne Boleyn – 19 May 1536
Read moreFour-hundred and seventy-five years ago today, Anne Boleyn knelt upright on a scaffold in the Tower of London on the…
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Jane TomlinsonRemembering Meena Keshwar Kamal
Read moreIn 1989, as a 26-year-old, I first truly understood what it was like to be disrespected because I am a…
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