The Truck Acts
Employee welfare in Britain’s unprecedented and, for some, traumatic passage through the Industrial Revolution was not always uppermost in employers’ minds. The […]
Read MoreEmployee welfare in Britain’s unprecedented and, for some, traumatic passage through the Industrial Revolution was not always uppermost in employers’ minds. The […]
Read MoreAs one of history’s greatest seafaring nations, Britain has made many contributions to oceanography, with the marine chronometer being one of the […]
Read MoreStonehenge in Wiltshire is Crown property and its mysterious origins and purpose remain unknown, although Druids believe they have a special connection […]
Read MoreThe neighbouring towns of Ascot and Windsor in Berkshire lie just 20 miles from central London and while Ascot has its royal […]
Read MoreRaymond (Ray) Percy Galton (1930-2018) and Alan Francis Simpson (1929-2017) were both Londoners, both 6’4″ tall, both had tuberculosis as teenagers and, […]
Read MoreLondoner Harold Pinter (1930-2008), writer for stage, screen and print, actor and director, was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. This […]
Read MoreMathematician and physicist Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974) from Cheshire discovered the third type of sub-atomic particle, namely neutrons, for which he received […]
Read More“We two matched for mating Came, handclasped, at last, Where the blacksmith was waiting To fetter us fast . . .” (Edith […]
Read MoreMedieval fairs were travelling or occasional marketplaces for traders, with a few refreshment stalls on the periphery. In the 18th and 19th […]
Read MoreLarge crowds are desirable for a ticketed or invitation event or meeting, but the right of peaceful assembly, as enshrined in British […]
Read MoreCleopatra: “Let it alone. Let’s to billiards. Come, Charmian.” ~ from Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606) This shows not only that the […]
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