Life Expectancy
Below is an example of the result obtained with the online calculator available at the Office of…
Steve Redgrave
Sir Steven G. Redgrave, (1962-) was Great Britain’s first competitor to win five Olympic Gold medals in…
Monasteries
The monastic movement came to the British Isles in the 6th century. The remote settings of monasteries,…
Listed Buildings
Since its inception in 1882, the designation of ‘Listed Building‘ has been applied to all shapes, sizes…
The glider and the seatbelt
Yorkshireman Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) was a man ahead of his time. For the want of a…
Adam Smith and Free Trade
Born in Fife, Adam Smith (1723-90) immersed himself in philosopy, ethics, logic theology and jurisprudence at the…
Weather wisdom
Predicting British weather by means of traditional sayings is surely just as successful as an electronic app,…
Glastonbury Festival
Sir A.J. Michael Eavis (1935-) was born and brought up in Pilton, Somerset, and inherited Worthy Farm,…
The versatile ‘ou’
A phoneme is the smallest unit of spoken sounds that together make up words (there are 44…
Helium (He)
The founder of the prestigious magazine ‘Nature’ was Warwickshire-born Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and its first edition…
Tea on the lawn
The British tend to make the most of the limited number of dry, tranquil summer days and,…
William Wilson and Water Polo
Water polo was a sport just waiting to burst onto the scene, considering its rapid spread, not…