Richard Cavendish

Richard Cavendish highlights a new exhibition at the Tate which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Historic Houses Association.

Isaac Watts died on November 25th, 1748, aged 74, in Stoke Newington, Hackney.

Seeing the potential of the new technology, William Henry Smith opened his first railway bookstall on 1 November 1848.

The Darien Colony was founded by Scottish emigrants on November 3rd, 1698. But it all went horribly wrong.

On 24 October 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.

The Morris Minor was launched at the British Motor Show of 1948, which opened at Earl's Court on October 27th.

The 'dragon lady' seized control on September 21st, 1898.

Richard Cavendish visits Traquair House, in Peeblesshire

One of Elizabeth I's court favourites died on August 4th, 1598, aged 77.

The battle between the British Navy and that of the French Republic took place on August 1st, 1798.