Roget’s Thesaurus
Stuck for a word? Since 1852 we have been turning to the amazing lexicon (“dictionary, vocabulary, index,…
Latent Heat and the Joule
Joseph Black (1728-99) was educated in Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh and worked in the latter two universities.…
The I-SPY book series
When children are travelling on a long car journey, a popular game to pass the time is“I…
Women’s League of Health & Beauty
Founded in London in 1930 by Irish emigrée Mary/’Mollie’ Bagot Stack (1883-1935), the Women’s League of Health…
Church Choirs
Many of the UK’s cathedrals have their own schools in which boys and sometimes girls are trained…
Standing Orders
Mystifying as they may seem to a casual onlooker, there are certain procedural rules that everyone in…
Finding Treasure
After so much history on these small islands, it is not surprising that people actively search with…
The Slide Rule
When a football commentator uses the term “a slide rule pass”, what is meant is that the…
Henges
3,000-4,000 years ago, henges were all the rage across Britain (and elsewhere too). A henge is an…
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), born in London, had a glittering, award-winning career as an Architect for the…
Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne
Rock group Black Sabbath can lay claim to initiating the sub-genre of ‘heavy metal’ with its high-volume,…
‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’
Being the first English-language novel written specially for children, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1865) has afforded researchers plenty…