The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures
10th December 2017
William, duke of Normandy, landed in England to begin the Norman Conquest.
On the 21st September 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit was first published in the United Kingdom.
On the 19th September 1970 the first Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
On the 7th September the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 began when Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay near Land’s End.
On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols – commonly known as Polly – became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of London.
On the 26th August 1346, one of the most decisive battles in the Hundred Years War was won by the army of the English king Edward III.
On the 22nd August 1485, King Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and the forces of Henry Tudor brought the Plantagenet dynasty to an end.
On the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches began.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017