Tag: British

Introducing my French neighbours to English ‘tea’. History and how the French do it differently, the French ‘Gouter’ In 1997 my husband and I moved to France to a doorless drafty chateau in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. The French Chateaux adventure is an exciti...

Before setting foot in the museum, I had already done an analysis of this app to assess its features and usability. This firsthand knowledge allowed me to approach the British Museum app with an informed perspective, ready to explore its features and compare it to its counterparts. My journey beg...

The fiery crash of the four-engine Vickers Vanguard in a field outside the Belgian town of Aarsele killed 63 people and left investigators with a monstrous mechanical puzzle. Something had ripped apart the Vanguard’s tail section in flight, leaving debris scattered for miles downwind of the cr...

On the 22nd of August 1985, a Boeing 737 packed with holiday travelers suffered a catastrophic engine failure as it sped down the runway in Manchester, England, prompting the pilots to reject the takeoff. But by the time the plane pulled safely off the runway and rolled to a stop, a massive curtain ...

Life on other planets is an unknown that we have not finished solving. Some belief in it; to others, it seems like sheer madness, and some directly dedicate themselves to investigating aliens and other paranormal phenomena in the galaxy. They are the ufologists, those people who watch the skies...

Dominique Samuels is (she wants you to think was) a British black right wing pundit. She is known in the UK for going around the media denying racism exists and for demonizing her fellow black people. In fact, she is a member of the racist Turning Point UK. The Anti-Defamation League has a g...

People from all over the world express themselves in different ways and they also have a different set of beliefs. The UK is a unique country as it’s one that believes it doesn’t have much of any sort of racism, or at least it didn’t up until now. But there is a lot of racism and d...

Beginning in 2024, British women will be able to access birth control pills over the counter without a prescription, it was announced by the government on the 16th of November 2023. Going forward, “the pill” can be obtained at a local chemist or pharmacy, known as ‘over the co...

On 4 July 1879, in the plains of Ulundi in South Africa, some 5,000 British soldiers were fighting 20,000 Zulus. Although outnumbered, the British had far superior weapons. The Zulu shields and spears were no match for the modern British artillery. Despite certain death and technological inferior...