Brian Blessed
A force of nature, Yorkshireman Brian Blessed (1936-) is an actor on stage and screen, a voiceover…
Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice is a national charity, mainly funded by taxpayers, which gives advice on managing debt; applying…
Snowdonia
Snowdonia, or Eryri to give it its Welsh name, is a group of mountains in north-west Wales,…
‘The Mousetrap’
‘The Mousetrap’, written by Agatha Christie (1890-1976) from Devon, is the world’s longest-running play. It opened in…
Penicillin
The 1945 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine recognised three men whose efforts brought about the production…
St. Valentine’s Day
St. Valentine’s Day is the 14th February and it has evolved in recent times from being a…
Alan Turing
Publicly recognised as a war hero long after his death, Alan Mathison Turing was born in London…
Sir Nick Faldo
Sir Nick (Nicholas Alexander) Faldo was born in 1957 in Hertfordshire and is the most successful British…
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.…
The London Eye
The London Eye has become one of the must-see tourist attractions in the English capital. It was…
British Summer Time
British Summer Time (BST) was an idea put forward by a wealthy businessman in Kent ~ William…
Railways
It is said that the railways were the supreme achievement of the Victorian era in Britain. Cornishman…