Michael Ross Europe: 4 books

The comical humour of Norwich based Author & Historian Michael Chandler.

The Marines of the First Fleet were the keeper of law and order upon the original settlement of the convict colony at Port Jackson in 1788. However only six years later one Henry Kable was appointed to the position of Chief Constable of the colony.   Henry Kable createda number...

On 2 June 1780 a huge crowd, estimated at 40,000 to 60,000 strong, assembled and marched on to the Houses of Parliament. Many of them carried flags and banners proclaiming "No Popery", and most wore blue cockades which had become the symbol of their movement. As they marched, their numbers...

William Kemp, who died in London on 2 November 1603, and is buried in St Saviour’s, Southwark was an actor, comic and dancer and he was one of the original players in William Shakespeare’s early dramas. The most famous role that he played was that of Sir John Falstaff. Kemp’s most famous roles...