Origins of Snooker. |
TODAY THE 19TH MARCH 1938 SIR NEVILLE FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY CHAMBERLAIN’S LETTER TO FIELD MAGAZINE RELATED TO THE GAME OF SNOOKER. HE WAS SAID THE HAVE FIRST MADE THE CLAIM IN 1875, BUT IT TOOK HIM AL…| dailybritain.wordpress.com
TODAY THE 19TH MARCH 1938 SIR NEVILLE FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY CHAMBERLAIN’S LETTER TO FIELD MAGAZINE RELATED TO THE GAME OF SNOOKER. HE WAS SAID THE HAVE FIRST MADE THE CLAIM IN 1875, BUT IT TOOK HIM AL…| dailybritain.wordpress.com
In the late Tudor period a group of extreme Protestants took up the case of a 13 year old boy Thomas Darling an alleged case of demonic possession. The case of the ‘Boy of Burton’ attracted national attention and tales of ‘witchcraft’ appealed to a credulous public. (1) The case of particular interest appearing as […]|
England after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 had become a dangerous place with so many displaced soldiers who were to join other disaffected people in a call for parliamentary reform including the extension of the franchise. One result was the increase in covert plotting against the government which came to a head Today in […]|
‘Not so beautiful game: More died playing football than sword fighting in Tudor times.’ An early account in England in 1321 records a dispensation granted by Pope John XXII to William de Spaulding …| dailybritain.wordpress.com
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud…When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth. (1) In the early 20th century the daffodil was under attack from a deadly disease which affected the bulb and the general health of the plant. It resulted in a Wisley botanist James Kirkham Ramsbotham […]|
One thing apparent in many of my Posts is the influence the Scots and Irish have had in scientific and engineering endeavour in the past; certainly the curriculum was weighted in favour of such pra…| dailybritain.wordpress.com
ONE OF THE INSPIRATIONS WHICH THE ADVENTUROUS RICH BROUGHT BACK FROM THE GRAND TOUR THROUGH ASIA MINOR AND GREECE IN THE 1700S WAS A LOVE OF GREEK ARCHITECTURE RESULTING IN MANY BUILDINGS OF THE SO…| dailybritain.wordpress.com
IT WAS TODAY IN 1965 WHICH WITNESSED THE END OF CHRISTMAS DAY LEAGUE FOOTBALL WHEN BLACKPOOL PLAYED BLACKBURN, LEAVING BOXING DAY AS THE POPULAR DAY OF THE FESTIVE SEASON. Blackpool had gone agains…| dailybritain.wordpress.com
4 inches Cork Republic strawberry dish. William Egan 1922. Fetched £5,000 at Mealys Fine Art. It came from the Cork mansion Lotabeg, In the Irish civil war. not being able to send to Dublin for ass…| dailybritain.wordpress.com
Of the 17 essential nutritional elements needed for plant growth aluminium is not one of them. Aluminium (Aluminum in US), is the most abundant metal element and the thirdf most abundant element af…| dailybritain.wordpress.com
