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Dear Reader: Before you continue reading this blog post, we would like to mention how these are not all the inspirational women for there were and are many more, if you can think of any; please comment down below. Many Thanks- Mae and Esther :-) P.s: This is not in any particular order.  Joan of Arc was a French peasant girl who lead the French army into battles against the English until her capture in the spring of 1430. She was the daughter of a French farmer and his wife. At an early age, her mother began teaching her the ways of the Catholic faith, which led her to become a devout Christian. When she was thirteen, Joan started to claim that she was receiving messages and visions from God, she believed that God was commanding her to lead the French in a victory against the English. At this time, Joan took a vow of chastity. However, when she was sixteen years of age, her father did attempt to marry her off, yet this came to nothing. In the May of 1428, Joan went to th...

Lord Byron is most famous for being a romantic poet. He is also well known for having a rather strange menagerie which included a bear when he was at university and also a badger, crocodile and a Newfoundland named 'Boatswain'! Throughout his life, Byron, born George Gordon Byron on 22nd January 1788, had various mistresses, thus causing him to have various illegitimate children. Although there are probably some we do not know because he never acknowledged them as his own, he did have a daughter by the author Mary Shelley's stepsister Claire Claremont. There is a rumour that Byron's half- sister's daughter- Elizabeth Medora Leigh, was also the daughter of the poet. This wouldn't be surprising because he doesn't exactly have a good reputation when it comes to women! In 1858, Byron married one of his mistresses' cousin: Anne Isabella Milbanke (aka Annabella). The marriage did produce one daughter, the famous mathematician and genius Augusta 'Ada...

Dear Reader, We are awfully sorry that we have not been writing as much as we used to but, being of the school age, we have had work and not to mention the Easter Holidays! Anyway, we hope that you all had a wonderful Easter and we will be writing more posts soon, comment below any questions that you have about history or any posts that you wish us to write! Many Thanks, Mae and Ess

'Bring Out The Banners' is a novel based on the historical events of the early 1900s Suffragettes.   The story follows two  young women  from very different  social backgrounds, Fiona  Campbell and   Lady "Belle" Isherwood who  share the  same interests in the Suffragettes  and work together to play their parts in the campaign.  I thought the book  gave a great insight into lives of real Suffragettes and I really enjoyed reading it.  I would recommend this book especially to those who are interested in the Suffragettes! If you are interested in buying this book pleas click hear    

1) In Tudor England if you were found guilty of "vagrancy" (being a tramp) twice, there would be a hole burned through your ear - a third time and you would be executed! 2) In 1764 Mozart composed his first symphony at the age of eightIn  3) In 931 a farmer killed King Theinhko of Burma for eating his cucumbers without asking. The farmer then had himself crowend King Nyanng-u Sawrahan and became known as the "Cucumber King"  4) On 28th April, 1978 the president of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan was shot dead in a coup. The new government said he had resigned for health reasons. 5) The  Anglo-Zanzibar War was the shortest war in recorded history lasting for 45 minutes on 27th August 1896. 6) On the other hand, the longest war in history was the Dutch-Scilly War, lasting from 1651-1986; 335 years.      7) Queen Elizabeth I, owned a total of 3000 dresses! 8) Most Roman gladiators ate a vegetarian diet consisting of grains, beans, dried frui...

Hana Brady During the awful events of the disastrous and brutal Holocaust , one of the millions of Jews murdered was a thirteen year old girl called Hana Brady. Upon her arrival at Auschwitz on 23rd October 1944, Hana was led to an immediate death in the Gas Chambers where she met her early end as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. Young Hana's story was revealed to the world in 2000, where a delivery of a Holocaust victim's suitcase arrived at Tokyo Holocaust Education Research Centre.  Hana grew up in Czechoslovakia with her parents and her older brother George. She was born on 16th May 1931. In 1939 the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia and exercised  the same fascist rules as they had done and did in other countries that they took over such as Germany and Poland. These laws excluded and banned Jews from partaking and visiting the majority of the places in the village, e.g.: the cinema and certain shops as well as forcing each member of the Jewish community to wea...