History (88 pages found in this category)


1996 Manchester bombing

Attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on Saturday 15 June 1996, when they detonated a 15,000 kg bomb in the centre of Manchester, England.

Alice Ayres

English nursemaid who died after rescuing three children under her care when a fire broke out at their home in 1885.

Ambrose Barlow

English Benedictine monk, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

Anne Askew

English writer and Protestant martyr, burnt to death in 1546.

Anne Bonny

Female pirate who operated in the Caribbean during the 18th century.

Anne Vaux

Anne Vaux (c. 1562 – in or after 1637) was a wealthy Catholic recusant. She was a relative of Francis Tresham, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but had no direct involvement in the plot herself.

Arnside Tower

Late-medieval peel tower in Cumbria, England, now ruinous.

Atterbury Plot

Conspiracy named after Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, aimed at restoring the House of Stuart to the throne of Great Britain.

Battle of Badon

Redirected to Battle of Mons Badonicus.

Battle of Howe Bridge

Riot that took place on 28 January 1881 against the background of an acrimonious strike by 50,000 miners from pits on the Lancashire coalfield, characterised by mobs of miners picketing working pits.