Wallace and Gromit
Making a stop-frame or stop-motion animation film is a painstaking, slow process, but Nick Parks, CBE, RDI (Royal Designer for Industry), had […]
Making a stop-frame or stop-motion animation film is a painstaking, slow process, but Nick Parks, CBE, RDI (Royal Designer for Industry), had […]
Widecombe Fair has taken place annually in that Dartmoor village in Devon on the second Saturday of September, possibly since before the […]
The most ardent football fans travel long distances to shout and cheer from the stands, but if the distance is very short, […]
A favourite pastime in the UK is gardening, with many considering it a bonus of retirement, when whole days can be spent […]
Royal Mail completed its privatisation process in 2015, but it had been a state-run organisation for the previous five hundred years and […]
There were probably two related Indo-European tongues with Semitic layers in Britain before Old English. One was mainly in the hilly west […]
One of the biggest leaps in mathematics was the invention of logarithms by Edinburgh-born John Napier (1550-1617). As a mathematician and astronomer, […]
The Battle of Waterloo on 18th June 1815 finally crushed the self-styled French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt to rule Europe. Ten years […]
Long ago, Gibraltar, Spain and Morocco were connected but after the Atlantic Ocean flooded into the Mediterranean, the 9-mile-wide Strait of Gibraltar […]
The world’s first free emergency telephone service went into operation in 1937 in London. Other numbers such as 333 and 707 were […]
‘Hockey on horseback’ originated in Persia, China and Asia and the British first caught onto it in India in the 1850s. They […]
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