Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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Oldham, Lancashire is in Lancashire.
On 13th June 1849 Oldham's Charter of Incorporation as a Borough was granted by Queen Victoria and received at Oldham Town Hall on 14th June 1849.
Oldham Town Hall was built in 1841.
On 13th June 1849 Oldham's Charter of Incorporation as a Borough was granted by Queen Victoria and received at Oldham Town Hall on 14th June 1849.
On 1st October 1900 Winston Churchill [aged 25] was declared MP Oldham at Oldham Town Hall.
On 14th December 2018 a statue of suffragette Annie Kenney, funded by public subscription, was unveiled in front of Oldham Town Hall.