Month: December 2019
Charles Darwin
Shropshire-born Charles Darwin (1809-82) had just graduated from Cambridge when he received the exciting invitation to be the ‘gentleman passenger’ on the […]
The F.A. Cup Final
The Football Association of England and Wales (F.A.) was founded in 1863. With the advent of the railways making team travel easier, […]
The Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland covers both Ireland and Northern Ireland, since it was established long before the partition. It traces its roots […]
The English Channel
The English Channel was formed by catastrophic flooding from the direction of the North Sea. This occurred anything from 10,000BC to 3,800BC […]
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (1919-2013) had an eventful life and drew on her multi-faceted experiences to write about women in all types of situation. […]
Parliamentary privilege
‘Parliamentary privilege‘ sets the boundaries for mutual non-interference between Parliament and the courts. It was laid down in the Bill of Rights […]
Adventus Saxonum
Neighbours of the Angles, the Saxons’ own land, Old Saxony, was in north-east Germany. Their settlement of England in the mid-5th century, […]
The Goon Show
World War 2 brought many cultural changes, one of which was the birth of modern British comedy, led courageously by The Goon […]