Date Archive

By ignoring the existence of these sites, or dismissing them as unfortunate side effects of the digital age, we are doing ourselves a disservice.

It is the first work in English fiction which describes the rare mental condition called “split-personality” or “dissociate identity disorder”.

Du Maurier took the Gothic genre into the twentieth century.

Agincourt was one of numerous battles fought in the Hundred Years War (1337 – 1452), between the English royal house of Plantagenet and the french.

The term baccalaureate is a misnomer, for unlike its European equivalent, it does not in itself qualify a student for university entrance.

Schools can resist the EBac, but at the cost of never being considered outstanding by Ofsted.

The Suffragettes had a policy to go on hunger strike once they were in prison, so that the government would be shamed if they died in custody.

“The majority of men in Parliament believed that women simply didn’t have the right kind of brains to understand how Parliament worked.”

Fictional creation as it may be, such a thing as a cloak of invisibility is now being pursued as a potential reality, in the guise of “Scientific optics.”