Articles written by Kathryn Burton
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Edward I and Crown Jewels Robbery
In 1303, a criminal gang broke into the vault of Westminster Abbey and stole as much as they could take of the English Crown Jewels, while Edward I was fighting the Scots
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The Welsh Not
In Wales, Welsh school children were punished for speaking their own language, in the belief that the English language would solve all their educational problems.
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The Early Life of Samuel Slater
How Samuel Slater, the father of the industrial revolution in America, got his knowledge of cotton spinning and cotton mills from Jedediah Strutt, in Belper, Derbyshire.
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