Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/September 2007

...that Orator Hunt's (pictured) presentation of the first petition in support of women's suffrage was received in Parliament with ribald laughter?
...that Holbeach House served as the theatre for the final battle of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, in which the conspirators undid themselves after they accidentally detonated their gunpowder store?
...that the Falklands Crisis of 1770 nearly touched off a war between Great Britain and Spain?