Gardening
A favourite pastime in the UK is gardening, with many considering it a bonus of retirement, when…
Royal Mail
Royal Mail completed its privatisation process in 2015, but it had been a state-run organisation for the…
Before Old English
There were probably two related Indo-European tongues with Semitic layers in Britain before Old English. One was…
Logarithms
One of the biggest leaps in mathematics was the invention of logarithms by Edinburgh-born John Napier (1550-1617).…
The Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo on 18th June 1815 finally crushed the self-styled French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt…
Humanism
Humanism in the UK is a collection of atheistic ideas promoted by an organisation which began as…
Gibraltar
Long ago, Gibraltar, Spain and Morocco were connected but after the Atlantic Ocean flooded into the Mediterranean,…
999 emergency telephone service
The world’s first free emergency telephone service went into operation in 1937 in London. Other numbers such…
Equestrian polo
‘Hockey on horseback’ originated in Persia, China and Asia and the British first caught onto it in…
The Glorious Revolution
“And whereas it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare…
Rose, thistle, flax and daffodil
The national flower of England is the rose ~ the Tudor rose ~ which derives from the…
The Conservative & Unionist Party
The Conservative Party is the oldest political party in existence today. Emerging in the late 1670s, it…