20th Century History

Web links to exciting English stories during the 20th century.

• Winston Churchill's incredible escape from the prison, 1899

• Prime Minister David Lloyd George's brush with death from flu in 1918

• The Real James Bond, Dalziel-Job and his adventure in Wartime Norway, 1940, Part 1

• The Real James Bond, Dalziel-Job and his adventure in Wartime Norway, 1940, Part 2

• The Cambridge Spy Ring Scandal, 1951

• How Henry VIII helped the Astronauts land on the Moon in 1969

• Margaret Thatcher's Fall from Power, 20 November 1990

• Gerald Ratner and His Catastrophic 'Midas Touch' in 1991