Instant History

Sandra Lawrence is a journalist and author. She writes for the Evening Standard, Guardian, Financial Times, The Times, Londonist.com and the English Garden. She is the London columnist for British Heritage magazine and is on the Q&A panel of experts for History Revealed magazine. Her travel writing is collected on madamepassepartout.com.

• The Renaissance in Europe • The Kings and Queens of England • The Wives of Henry VIII • The Works of Shakespeare • The Defeat of the Spanish Armada • The US Constitution • The Presidents of the USA • The British East India Company • The French Revolution • The Battle of Waterloo • Queen Victoria's Reign • The American Civil War • The Abolition of Slavery • Charles Darwin and The Voyage of the Beagle • The Industrial Revolution • Louis Pasteur Finds a Cure • The Discovery of Antarctica • The Causes of the American Civil War • Captain James Cook and Australia • The Invention of the Light Bulb • The Invention of the Car • The Wright Brothers' First Flight • Women's Suffrage • The Sinking of the Titanic • The Causes of World War I • The Battle of the Somme • The Russian Revolutions • Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism • The Hindenburg Airship Crash • The Great Depression • The Causes of World War II • The Evacuation of Dunkirk • The Attack on Pearl Harbor • The D-Day Landings • VE Day Celebrations • Hiroshima • Atomic Bomb • India and Pakistan Gain Independence • Mao and Communist China • The Start of the Korean War • Pele's World Cup Performance • The Cuban Missile Crisis • Martin Luther King's Speech • The Vietnam War • The Assassination of JFK • Beatlemania • The Moon Landings • The Famine in Ethiopia • The Explosion of Challenger Spacecraft • Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster • Tiananmen Square Massacre • The Fall of the Berlin Wall • The Release of Nelson Mandela • The Death of Princess Diana.