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Writing Boxes: The portable writing desk

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

1812 at Sea: The humbling of the Royal Navy

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Cadwallon ap Cadfan: King of Gwynedd 625-634

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Ine: King of Wessex 688 - 726

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Magna Carta 1215: The beginning of the English Constitution

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Roald Dahl: RAF Fighter Pilot

In: Modern British History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Scottish Highlander: During the French and Indian War

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Fusilier Cooper: A Redcoat during the Peninsular War

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Transportation Act of 1718: Indentured Servitude for criminals

In: UK/Irish History (general)

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Doocots: Scottish Pigeonhouses

In: Scottish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Claude Duval (1643-70): The Dashing Highwayman

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Thief-Takers: Hunters of the highwayman

In: UK/Irish History (general)

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Stevenson at Play: & The Yallobally Record

In: UK/Irish History (general)

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Victorian Funeral: & The Victorian Undertaker

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Vizagapatam Toy Soldiers: Britain’s oldest toy soldier set

In: UK/Irish History (general)

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Zulu: Sir Stanley Baker’s Cinematic Masterpiece

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

William Rufus: King William II

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Fuzzy-Wuzzy: The Beja Warriors

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Death of General Gordon: The Fall of Khartoum 1885

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

General Charles Gordon: The Life and Death of Chinese Gordon

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By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

British Beer: And the British Pub Culture

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

King Edward VIII’s Abdication: The Abdication Crisis of 1936

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Saxon Kingdoms: The Rise of Mercia, Wessex, & Northumbria

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Urien of Rheged: & The Second Saxon Offensive

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Maelgwn Gwynedd: A.k.a Mailcun or Maglocunus,‘Dragon of the Ilsand’

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Angus McBride: Legendary Military Artist

In: Modern British History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Mons Bodonicus (Mount Badon): King Arthur’s Greatest Victory

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Allele, the First Bretwalda: The Saxon Invasion of Sussex

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Downfall of Vortigern: The Great Saxon Rebellion

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Vortigern & Ambrosius: British Civil War

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Vortigern, Germanus, and Cunedda: The British Campaigns against the Irish

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Rise of Vortigern: The “Overking” of Britain

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Count Theodosius: Fighting the Barbarian Alliance

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Roman Roads: Britain’s first Highways

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Roman Legionary in Britain: His Weapons, Armor, and Equipment

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Roman Conquest of Britain: Emperor Drusus’ Triumph

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Caesar’s 2nd British Invasion: Julius Caesar fights the Celts under Cassivellaunus

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The First Roman Invasion: Julius Caesar attacks Britain

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Druids: Guardians of Celtic Tradition

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Celtic Warrior in Britain: His Weapons, Equipment, and Armor

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Celtic Invasion: The arrival of the Britons

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Isandlwana: The Zulus crush the British Redcoats

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The London Necropolis Railway: Last ride to the Brookwood Cemetery

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Royal Navy Battlecruisers: In World War I

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Rollright Stones: The Uncountable Standing Stones

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Royal Navy vs the Kriegsmarine: Norway 1940

In: Modern British History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Death of Harold Godwinson: Was King Harold really killed by an arrow to the eye?

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Norman Knight: The Weapons and Armor of the Norman heavy Cavalry

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Sir Francis Drake: An English Hero, Pirate, and Circumnavigator

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Sir Admiral John Hawkins: An Original Elizabethan Sea Dog

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Excavation at Sutton Hoo: Burial Mound of Raedwald, Bretwalda

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Anglo-Saxon Warrior: The Weapons and Armour of the Early English Warrior

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Picts: The Dark Age Rulers of Scotland

In: British Dark & Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Origins of the Black Watch: The Beginnings of the Scottish Highland Regiment

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Falklands War: The Air and Sea Campaigns

In: Modern British History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Argentina Invades the Falklands: The opening moves of the Falklands War

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Britain and the Falklands: How Britain came to own the Falklands

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Horrible Histories: Oxford -Review: The Latest in Terry Deary's Horrible Histories

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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

In: Georgian/Victorian Britain

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

King Ethelred the Unready: Ethelred II had no answer for the Viking Invasions.

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Concorde: British Airways' Supersonic Passenger Jet.

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Battle of Hastings, 1066: William the Conqueror vs. King Harold the Saxon

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Harald Hardrada: The Last of the Vikings

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Tostig Godwinson: Brother and Traitor to the King

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Fulford Gate & Stamford Bridge: The Other Battles of 1066

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

William the Conqueror: Victor at the Battle of Hastings 1066

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

King Harold Godwinson: The Last Anglo-Saxon King of England

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The 1953 Mt Everest Expedition: How Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became legends

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

King Arthur: Legendary King of Camelot

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Dick Turpin: Britian's Greatest Highwayman?

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Hereward the Wake at Ely: The Defence of Ely, Later Life, and Death

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Hereward the Wake: Early Life, Outlaw, & The attack on Peterborough

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Outlaws: Bandits, Bad Guys, and Fugitives in History

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Offa's Dyke: The King of Mercia's Defensive Wall

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Mary Rose: Pride of Henry VIII's Navy

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Augustine of Kent: The lesser known St. Augustine

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Big Ben

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot: The Attempt to Assassinate King James I

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: General Conrwallis vs. General Nathaniel Greene

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

General Cornwallis: The Man who lost the American Revolution?

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Sword & Gold Beaches Normandy 1944: The British D-Day Landings on Fortress Europe

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

Rorke's Drift: 120 British Redcoats versus 10,000 Zulu Warriors

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

H. G. Wells: Author of The War of the Words, Father of Science-Fiction

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

King Alfred the Great: Father of the English Monarchy.

In: UK/Irish History

By: Feature Writer Joseph Allen McCullough

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