Five questions about walls – Quick Quiz
Walls are such a feature of everyday life that it’s easy to forget they’re there sometimes. How much do you know about them?
Five questions about Livery Companies – Quick Quiz
The City of London has 108 Livery Companies, many of them tracing their history back to the trade and craft guilds of the Middle Ages, others rather more recent. How much do you know about them?
British Expat Newsletter: November 2012
This month: Pewterers, plaisterers and pattenmakers – the guild system over the ages.
British Expat Newsletter: June 2012
This month: Alan Turing – genius mathematician, cryptologist and computer scientist who was shabbily treated by the country he helped save in the Second World War.
British Expat Newsletter: April 2012
This month: Keep calm and carry on – a look at the history behind the slogan, and the impact of government propaganda.
We’re all Asians really
From his vantage point in Turkey, Jack Scott ponders the perennial question of where Asia ends and Europe begins!