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Showing posts with label Tower of London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tower of London. Show all posts
Monday, March 19, 2018

The Medieval History of the Tower of London

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Medievalists The White Tower of The Tower of London. Photo by Medievalists.net By Toni Mount 540 years ago, on the 18th February 1...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Retracing ancient footsteps around London’s Roman Wall

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KCWToday By Owen Fulda  Back in around 200 AD, the shape of London was defined by one single structure; its enormous defensive city ...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

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History Extra Paul Delaroche's 19th-century painting of the princes in the Tower. (Bridgeman Art Library) Locked in...
Monday, May 9, 2016

History Trivia - Crown jewels stolen from Tower of London

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May 9 1671 The crown jewels were briefly stolen from the Tower of London by Irish adventurer Colonel Thomas Blood.
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Anne Boleyn, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

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History Extra 'The Young Princes in the Tower', 1831. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

History Trivia - King Charles I flees London

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January 10 69 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus was appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor. 236 Pope Fabian succeeded Anterus...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

History Trivia - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine

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December 10   1520 Martin Luther burned his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.   1541 Thoma...
Friday, May 9, 2014

History Trivia - Lincoln Cathedral, one of the most important medieval cathedrals in England, is consecrated.

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May 9  1457 BC Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh.   It was the first bat...