Mary Somerville, born Mary Fairfax in 1780, was a Scottish scientist, known particularly for her books on astronomy and other physical scien...

Extract from pamphlet Canada wants domestic servants , issued by Canada’s Minister of the Interior in 1909: The domestic servant problem i...

England in 878 AD Æthelflæd, the daughter of King Alfred, was a significant figure in early British history. From the time of her husband...

The rise of Nationalsozialismus in Germany was only one element in the more or less continuous socialist onslaughts on European capitalist, ...

Denis Compton CBE (1918 - 1997) Denis Compton, a cricketer who played in nearly eighty Test matches for England and who was a household ...

Statue of King Alfred by Count Gleichen (1833 – 1891) The statue of Alfred The Great (shown above) located in Wantage, Oxfordshire was ...

A couple of years ago there was a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled ‘Intelligence — born smart, born equal, born different’. According to ...

Sphinx and pyramid at Giza In Egypt’s palmy days, industry, foreign commerce, and successful wars poured untold wealth into the coffers o...

On Wednesday (14th November) a book was published about the life of the late General Sir Richard McCreery, the father of my colleague Dr Cha...

Thomas Jefferson (one of the Founding Fathers of the United States) said, in effect, that the first duty of a government was not to let the ...

When war had been declared on Germany and hence the British Empire faced another world war, King George VI made a Christmas broadcast which ...

The rise of individualism prior to 1945 was not a simple matter. Probably the factors that would lead to its downfall were present from an ...