The Union Jack
The flag of the United Kingdom is a symbolic layering of three other flags ~ the English,…
The Olivier Awards
Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-89) was born in Surrey and became a highly revered, indeed legendary, Shakespearean actor…
Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) was a period when the descendants of two of King Edward…
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York
The two Archbishops are the most senior members of the Church of England. Of the two, the…
The Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift (GVS) is the reason we may find Old and Middle English difficult to…
The typewriter
The first patent for a typewriter was granted in 1714 to Henry Mill (1683-1771) from southern England.…
Thinking Day
Thinking Day, or, as it has been known since 2000, ‘World Thinking Day’, has been celebrated each…
The Labour Party
The Labour Party is a socialist political party and, until recently, has been seen as the main…
Pub quiz nights
In the 1970s, pubs were seeing their businesses decline due to people staying in to watch television…
Abolition of slavery
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an MP who tirelessly campaigned for the abolition of slavery on moral grounds.…
St. Columba
St. Columba (521-97) was born into the Irish aristocracy and was educated at a Christian monastery, after…
Morphic resonance
In 1973 Dr Rupert Sheldrake (1942-) began investigating how plants and animals receive the information on how…