Leaders
International Council of Women 1904
Women’s Suffrage 1904
Read MoreMary Wollenstonecraft or Jeremy Bentham as first advocate of Womans Rights?
Who first expressed the need for women’s rights to be publicly addressed?
Read MoreJeremy Bentham advocates Women’s Suffrage 1818
Jeremy Bentham was a radical thinker leader in utilitarianism and working for the greater good including being ahead of his time on women’s rights.
Read MoreHerbert George Blondie Hasler 1914-1987 DSO OBE
Blondie Hasler credited with set-up of what became the SBS on the authority of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Read MoreBritain claims the Falkland Islands 1833
Falklands claimed as Crown Territory 1833
Read MoreVolunteer Rifle Corps 1859
Formation of the Volunteer Rifle Corps 1859
Read MoreKhaki uniforms for British troops 1848
British colonial troops in India in 1848, were issued with khaki uniforms to give them camouflage in the arid dusty conditions they found themselves in. Khaki is the Hindi word meaning ‘dust covered’. Take a look at old military photos, the type of uniform could give you a hint if your ancestor served overseas and…
Read MoreSir Robert Walpole 1721
Sir Robert Walpole becomes Englands first Prime Minister in April 1721
Read More1795 Sterilization process for preserving food introduced
‘An army travels on it’s stomach’, so Napoleon said and seeing so many of his troops suffering from diseases that had more to do with hunger and scurvy than with battle wounds, he determined to do something about it. The French government offered a prize of 12,000F to the person who could invent a method…
Read More1833 Michael Faraday introduces laws of electrolysis
Michael Faraday quite possibly the most important and influential scientist of the C19th
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