The Gazette

Publication Date

23 January 2015

Jane Goodall is widely regarded as the world’s foremost expert in chimpanzees.

Publication Date

9 January 2015

During WW1, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk was the first British town to experience the horror of civilian fatalities during an aerial bombardment, with King’s Lynn soon to follow. 

Publication Date

3 December 2014

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson achieved many firsts for British women. She was the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon, the co-founder of the first hospital to be staffed by women, and the first woman to be appointed as a mayor and a magistrate. 

Publication Date

26 November 2014

Peter Blake is a British pop artist, perhaps best known for co-creating the sleeve for the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.

Publication Date

26 November 2014

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest against British taxation that took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on 16 December 1773.

Publication Date

26 November 2014

The war had been raging for four months and three weeks. But on Christmas Eve 1914, the guns suddenly fell silent, as many German and British soldiers put down their weapons to extend the hand of friendship.

Publication Date

22 October 2014

A list of all the Victoria Crosses gazetted in 1914.

Publication Date

22 October 2014

Publication Date

22 October 2014

A list Victoria Crosses gazetted in 1915.

Publication Date

22 October 2014

A list of Victoria Crosses gazetted in 1916.