The concrete cows of Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England, was designated as a ‘New Town’ in 1967. Among the projects that…
Downing Street
Downing Street, in Westminster, is very close to the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and New Scotland…
Nursery rhymes
Traditional nursery rhymes such as ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill’, ‘Three blind mice’, and ‘Mary…
The BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards were first devised for the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee (25 years on…
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) is a step towards the idea of having ‘open’ government.…
Guy Fawkes Night
The 5th November is known as Guy Fawkes Night, or Bonfire Night, as it commemorates a treasonous…
Jehovah’s Witnesses
There are 135,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the UK and most people will have encountered at least two…
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…