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Handel’s Messiah
Handel’s first performance of the Messiah was not in London but in a music hall in Fishamble Street in Dublin. The performance took place on 13th April 1742 and although he struggled to find enough performers and to convince the clergy to allow him to perform a sacred piece of music in a secular building,…
Read MoreGeorge II reigned 1727 – 1760
George II reigned over 33 years of rapid change in the political and economic circumstances of Britain
Read More1824 Patent for Portland cement
The 1824 patent for portland cement, an immensely important patent that allowed us the docks, the sewers and tunnels under the Thames.The importance of Portland cement in the development of English towns and cities cannot be underestimated.
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 More1825 Invention of the electromagnet
The electromagnet invented 1825 by William Sturgeon who was a remarkable self taught shoemaker, philosopher and scientist.
Read More1833 Factory Act
How effective was the Factory Act of 1833?
Read More1833 Michael Faraday introduces laws of electrolysis
Michael Faraday quite possibly the most important and influential scientist of the C19th
Read MoreIsambard Kingdom Brunel Died 1859
Death of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Read MoreCharles Darwin ‘Origin of Species’
The brilliant Charles Darwin, informed the thinking of so many other great minds…
Read MoreThe Great Exhibition 1851
The Great Exhibition 1851, a showcase for all that was brilliant in Britain
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