What would we do without our teachers? Thank you for 2020
No-one could have ever imagined 2020 to turn out how it has. The virus reached the UK in late January 2020 and turned everyone’s world upside down. Testing started in…
Free Virtual Tours of UK Museums & Galleries
Missing cultural trips out with your family? There are free virtual tours of UK museums and galleries right at your fingertips. Peruse fascinating and stunning collections of video, photography and…
The Ladies Favourite, Royal Ascot
As any fashionistas will tell you, today is “Ladies’ Day” at Royal Ascot. Ascot’s independent schools also have an element of Royal blood and equine heritage coursing through their foundations.
The opening of the reconstructed Globe Theatre was today in 1997
The 12 June 1997, saw the opening of the modern reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Along with traditional methods of learning Shakespeare is very much accessible via 21st century means nowadays.
Roget’s Thesaurus was published on this day in 1852
Peter Roget’s initial attempt to write a Thesaurus at 26 did not come to fruition and it was almost 50 years later, in his early 70s, that it was finally published.