Royal Mail
Royal Mail completed its privatisation process in 2015, but it had been a state-run organisation for the previous five hundred years and […]
Royal Mail completed its privatisation process in 2015, but it had been a state-run organisation for the previous five hundred years and […]
We call it ‘whisky’, the world calls it ‘Scotch’, but the production of Scotch whisky is by law purely Scottish. The Scotch […]
The role of coroner was first established in England in 1194. The equivalent in Scotland is a ‘procurator fiscal’. Coroners’ Courts are outside […]
In the period of 1650-1830, that small, persistent, criminal section of society found a new method open to it, giving rise to […]
The Family Law Reform Act of 1969 lowered the traditional ‘age of majority’ from twenty-one to eighteen, as from 1st January 1970. […]
Before the County Courts were created in 1846, there was a rather unsatisfactory system of ‘circuit’ judges visiting different parts of the […]
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an MP who tirelessly campaigned for the abolition of slavery on moral grounds. He finally achieved his aim […]
Becoming eighteen years of age in the UK means that you are then considered to be an adult… more or less. There […]
The Licensing Act, 2003, (for England and Wales) allows premises selling alcohol to be open for twenty-three hours a day, but in […]
Family responsibilities are central to the British way of life. Most of us have a ‘family tree’ and memories of growing up […]
Income tax was first used to finance wars. This began in 1799 with the Napoleonic wars and the tax was so closely […]
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