At the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison, an activist in the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), ran out on to the racecourse in an apparent attempt to attach the suffragette colours to the King’s horse, ‘Amner’. Tragically, the terrible injuries that she sustained in the collision with the horse and jockey, led to her death four days later – she never recovered consciousness. To celebrate her tremendous courage and her committed activism for the WSPU, here is …
At the Chateau de Cande on 3 June 1937, the Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield Simpson – so to mark the day, we thought we’d post this newspaper photograph of the happy couple, as well as a report about their honeymoon plans. With the recent news that the UK government spied on Edward VIII during the abdication crisis, combined with the extremely hands-on role that Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury played during the crisis, it could be …
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Thomas Hardy, poet, novelist and creator of great existentialist heroes and heroines in his novels, was born in Stinsford, Dorchester, on 2 June 1840. To celebrate the day, included below is a fascinating newspaper article – published in 1894 – that, in the course of an interview reports his thoughts on the art of writing and other writers. Also included is an advertisement for one of Thomas Hardy’s novels that appeared in ‘The Graphic’ newspaper in late 1894. Although it’s …
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White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits! It’s the first day of the month – and not just any old month, but June! And, touch wood, it’ll be a ‘flaming June’. Here’s a cartoon strip about the weather in June from ‘The Liverpool Echo’ of Saturday 13 June 1914. Let’s hope the weather this next month is of the old-fashioned type, as highlighted in panel number six. Liverpool Echo – Saturday 13 June 1914 Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy …