Just twenty five years of history but filled with so much. There was a war to end all wars, which turned out to be badly named. This war, later known as the First World War, was fought mainly by soldiers in trenches in northern France and Belgium. There was fighting in some other places but it was mostly to the trenches that British soldiers were sent. Women gained the vote and undertook much of the work done by the men who had been sent to fight. The Edwardian Age came and went.
Back to Owlbut's History of England
A brief video introduction (made in 2021). Ignore the odd letter that may appear in the video. This is from a previous treasure hunt we ran.
In 1901, the estimated population of England (to the nearest ¼million) was 30 million people.
