Depending on your point of view, Charlotte Corday is either a heroine or villainess. Read on to learn more about the story of this assassin. 13 July 1793, Paris, the eve of Bastille Day, the French Revolution in full swing. Charlotte Corday, the daughter of an impoverished Normandy aristocrat, arrives at Jean Paul Marat’s residence. Hidden in her corset is…
Sarah Good, born on 11 July 1655, was one of the first three women to be executed after being found guilty of witchcraft in the Salem Witch trials. Her father, a tavern owner committed suicide when she was 17. Leaving no will, his sizeable estate was divided mostly between his widow and two sons. Sarah received a small parcel of…
On this day in 1930, Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. She left Croydon Airport in Surrey on 5th May and landed in Darwin on 24th May. To celebrate, she was the subject of a popular song, Amy, Wonderful Amy, recorded by Jack Hylton and his orchestra only 9 days after her arrival.…
In eighteenth century London, if you wanted to fence, you headed straight to the Angelo School of Arms. The salle, which was originally based above the pit door at Her Majesty’s Theatre at Haymarket, was moved to 13 Bond Street when the theatre burned in 1789. The Angelo family were a dynasty of fencing masters, famed all over Europe. Although…
