This Week in British History - Presented by Philippa Lacey Brewell

6th - 12th April  

🤴Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) dies,  

⚓️RMS Titanic Sets Sail,  

🎶The Beatles split,  

🇬🇧First Union Jack is created in 1606  

📜William Wordsworth is born and is created Poet Laureate (not in the same year 😂)

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⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️ Further Reading and Watching  

Richard Lionheart 

(and all English monarchs from Boudicea to Elizabeth I) A History of the English Monarchy by Gareth Russell. Published by Made Global. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Richard-Lionheart/  Titanic The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell. Published by Harper Collins and also available on Audible.  

Wordsworth 

http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/poets/poets.laureate.britain.htm#WilliamWordsworth https://poetrysociety.org.uk/education/poet-laureate-faqs/  

Union Jack 

Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1986) [1904]. The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory. London: Bloomsbury Books. p. 399. ISBN 0-906223-34-2. https://www.oxfordinternationalenglish.com/why-is-the-united-kingdom-flag-called-the-union-jack/