The History of Britain Magazine
Welcome to the History of Britain! The home nations share a varied and shared history unlike anywhere else, so we thought it only right to create a section dedicated to our mutual heritage.
D-Day Dodgers – Defying Danger in Italy
The campaigns in Italy in 1943 and 1944 were tough and bloody ones, with some of the most brutal engagements of the Second World War. Yet somehow the sacrifice of the troops involved in the Italian campaign came to be overshadowed by the events of the better-known D-Day operation: the Normandy landings.
Kindertransport
Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) was the name given to a series of evacuations between 1938 and 1940 to bring refugee children, mostly Jewish, from Germany and German occupied territories to the safety of Britain.
Sophia Duleep Singh, Suffragette
The daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and goddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was also a dedicated campaigner for women’s rights.
Scotland and V.E. Day
V.E. Day celebrations in Scotland became a full two or three day extravaganza, with street parties, bonfires, and mass gatherings. Pubs in Glasgow and Edinburgh were drunk dry, people partied all day and into the night…
The Princesses’ V.E. Day
Princess Elizabeth’s ‘secret night out’. Desperate to join in the V.E. Day celebrations, Elizabeth and her sister Margaret slipped out of the palace and joined the crowds outside…
The Forty Elephants Gang
In the crime-ridden underworld of Victorian London, a group of working-class women rose to notoriety. This was the all-female gang of ‘hoisters’ known as the Forty Elephants (or Forty Thieves), whose speciality was shoplifting from high end department stores. For them, life was a rollercoaster of thieving, lavish spending and prison…
A Timeline of Parliament
The UK Parliament is made up of the Monarch, House of Lords and the House of Commons. Known as ‘The Mother of Parliaments’ this parliamentary system has been copied by many countries around the world. Its foundation began way back with the Anglo-Saxon Witan…
Lady Mary Lovelace
Artist, architect and writer, Lady Mary Lovelace was a passionate supporter of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
