The First Svengali
Svengali appeared as a character in Trilby, released as a book in the US on 8 September 1894.
Mathew Lyons
Portrait of the Portrait Artist
Holbein’s creative life during three decades of extraordinary political, religious and intellectual turbulence.
End of the Edge of the World
The last islanders living on the small archipelago of St Kilda were evacuated on 29 August 1930.
Death of a Philosopher Queen
Ahilyabai Holkar, queen of the Malwa kingdom, died on 13 August 1795.
One Election Too Many
The Representation of the People Act, which received royal assent on 30 July 1948, abolished university constituencies.
The Liberator’s Saviour is ‘Buried’
154 years after her death, Manuela Sáenz was given a state burial on 5 July 2010.
The Film Churchill Tried to Kill
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp premiered on 10 June 1943.
The End of a European Union
The Kalmar Union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden came to an end on 6 June 1523.
Theodore’s Mercy Mission
Theodore left Rome for Canterbury on 27 May 668.
First in Her Field (Work)
The pioneering archaeologist and Oxbridge’s first woman professor, Dorothy Garrod was elected to the Chair of Archaeology on 6 May 1939.