Handel’s ‘Water Music’ floats the King’s boat
To listen to this whole post, click here – On this day in 1717 the first performance of Handel’s ‘Water Music’ was given, on... Read More
J D Salinger, Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn
To listen to this whole post, click here – On this day in 1951 the novel The Catcher in The Rye was published. Teenagers everywhere... Read More
The Rosetta Stone reveals Egypt’s past
TO LISTEN TO THIS WHOLE POST, CLICK HERE – On this day in 1799 the Rosetta Stone was found in a village in Egypt.... Read More
David Thoreau invents civil disobedience
TO LISTEN TO THIS WHOLE POST, CLICK HERE – On this day in 1846 Henry David Thoreau was jailed in Massachusetts for non-payment of... Read More
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Hubris and Nemesis
On this day in 1792, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, King and Queen of France, were deposed and imprisoned in Paris. Marie Antoinette married at... Read More
Julius Caesar starts the fashion for dictatorship
On this day in 100BC Julius Caesar was born. Nearly two thousand years later, the name of this man still stands for power and military... Read More
The Boyne, where King Billy met King James
On this day in 1690, The Battle of the Boyne was fought between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones – the... Read More