Cropredy
Cropredy is a village in Oxfordshire which plays host every August to a music festival also simply known as ‘Cropredy‘, though its […]
Cropredy is a village in Oxfordshire which plays host every August to a music festival also simply known as ‘Cropredy‘, though its […]
‘Beowulf’ is the oldest surviving and longest epic poem written in Old English, having 3,182 lines of alliterative verse. It appears as […]
The UK passed the world’s first animal welfare law in 1822, with the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act. The Protection of Animals […]
As a young child, Dame Dr Jane Goodall was fascinated by the natural behaviour of animals and at age five hid in […]
Professor Sir John Vane, FRS, was born in Worcestershire in 1927 and from a young age showed a great interest in carrying […]
In past centuries the Catholic Church played a large part in Britain’s politics, warfare, monarchy and everyday life. It was seen as […]
Reality TV, the docu-soap and the fly-on-the-wall documentary can all thank the BBC’s 1974 television programme ‘The Family’ for their emergence. Producer […]
There is a zany element in British humour, which has, naturally, crept into the supposedly serious world of politics. The Official Monster […]
The first Briton in space was Yorkshire-born Dr. Helen Sharman (1963-) in 1991, who spent eight days in the Russian space station, […]
Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, as it is more often called, is the last day before the religious observance of Lent. Traditionally, […]
The Oxford English Dictionary currently includes around one thousand words of Indian origin and the number continues to rise each year. This […]
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