Tag: 20th Century

• An Interview With: Victoria Panton Bacon, Second World War Historian

  

  Hello and welcome back to our “An Interview With” series! Today it is my pleasure to have author and historian of the Second World War, Victoria Panton Bacon, on as our guest, in a timely post for Remembrance Day. Today also sees the release of Victoria’s first children’s book, Their Second World War. Victoria is…

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  November 11, 2025

  An Interview With

  20th Century, Books, British History, Children’s Books, European History, history, History Books, Military History, Second World War, Women’s History, World War II

• Historical Figures: Madam C J Walker, Titan of Industry

  

  Years ago I was writing one of my daily social media posts on the theme of “on this day” and I saw that the day I was writing (23rd December) was the birthday of a woman named Madam C J Walker. Intrigued, I looked into her to see whether to write a post about her…

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  August 24, 2022

  Historical Figures, Women’s History

  19th Century, 20th Century, African American history, American History, Beauty, Black history, Business, Emancipation, Entrepreneur, history, Slavery, Women’s History

• A Brief Moment of History: The WWII Submarine Reindeer

  

  If you were asked to think of the year 1941 in European history, you would probably be picturing the midst of the Second World War, with images of the Blitz, the front line, and soldiers. What you are most likely not picturing is a reindeer living on a submarine. But this was in fact the…

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  May 11, 2022

  A Brief Moment of History, Seafaring History

  20th Century, British History, English History, European History, history, Naval History, Navy, Reindeer, Russia, Second World War, Soviet Union, Submarines, World War II, WWII