#OnThisDay, 17 May 1841, Sarah Losh and her fellow trustees lay the foundation stone of Wreay Church. Sarah designed, funded and had the earliest Romanesque revival church in England built.

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#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: https://buff.ly/38djBcP

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#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

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"As my year moved onwards towards Autumn 1975, and back to winter again, I remember a couple more things."
Read on...
https://wp.me/pdWkHZ-3IK

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https://thearchiveofmylife.com/my-3rd-birthday-and-musical-road-to-4-part-four/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

On this day 100 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II was born.

https://feddit.uk/post/47869519

Why there are 2 Irelands 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Ireland vs Northern Ireland 🤯

https://tube.blueben.net/w/dVUYp7BBj17PG5SsMWmehy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-a-new-documentary-one-of-britains-most-famous-historians-reframes-the-american-revolution-as-a-messy-divorce-180988457/

As a Brit resident in the USA who has more than a passing interest in US history and culture, my feelings about the American Revolution are so mixed and multitudinous that I won't try to put them all down here, although I might post some reflections over the course of the year.

I am glad that the article I've posted mentions the Gordon riots, an all too often forgotten episode exhibiting both the repressive violence wielded by Britain's rulers against their compatriots in the crowd, and the ugly bigotry coursing through that crowd.

Those riots also offer a jumping off point for an exercise in counterfactual history: what if those disorders had not been contained, but had turned out to be the beginnings of the British Revolution of 1780?

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#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught.

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