Nicholas Lorimer

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 10th January 1927 – Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis is released in

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 1st January 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 21st December 1237 – The city of Ryazan is sacked by the

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 16th December 1944 – The Battle of the Bulge in the final

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 9th December 1905 – In France, a law separating church and state

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 2nd December 1989 – The Peace Agreement of Hat Yai is signed

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 26th November 1924 – The Mongolian People’s Republic is officially established after

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 22nd November 1718 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards

Increasingly, by-election results and the polling we’ve seen so far suggest that it is very likely that, in the absence of some dramatic shift in

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 11th November 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland