SNAPSHOTS
c1920
SKILLS FOR LIFE
Cookery was just one of the many skills that students were taught at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. The school was founded in 1868 with the primary task
The Life And Times Of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is born in Portsmouth to John and Elizabeth Dickens. An AngloPrussian victory at the battle of Waterloo (depicted below) brings the Napoleonic Wars to a close. More than a dozen people are killed at a pro-democracy rally in Manchester
