Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was born in Surrey, attended Eton and Oxford and was a gifted, articulate student. His writing career began in […]
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was born in Surrey, attended Eton and Oxford and was a gifted, articulate student. His writing career began in […]
Baroness Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) was a force for change in the UK throughout the 1980s, such that the term ‘Thatcherism’ is applied […]
The British participation in the Crimean War (1854-6) can be likened to joining in a playground squabble between little boys. The fiasco […]
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decreed that all Catholic countries should swap over to a new calendar, which became known as the […]
Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox, which means that most people do not […]
The main achievement of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) was to sail around the world in 1577-80, but there is also a suggestion […]
“He was not of an age, but for all time”… so wrote Shakespeare’s friend, Ben Jonson, in the preface to the First […]
The Eurovision Song Contest was first staged by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in 1956 in Switzerland. The UK had its first […]
Radar stands for ‘Radio Detection and Ranging’ and there were two Scottish physicists who had key roles in its invention. The first […]
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