...of a General Post Office (GPO) publicity leaflet, the Post Office Tower rose ‘like a giant lighthouse above the London streets’. It became a major landmark on the skyline of...
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...changes over time, challenging. 1960s: nationality over ethnicity The terms ‘Old Commonwealth’ and ‘New Commonwealth’ were first used in the results of the 1966 sample Census to give an indication...
...English Channel. These could travel up to 40 knots per hour, around 3 times faster than the LS(T)s. The Allies needed to protect not just the men and ships in...
...twice as much as the initial estimate), and modifications such as the installation of electric light in 1894.[iii] The majority of these works, performed on a house that was originally...
...Some previous landmarks in the official use of English required statutes. The 1362 Pleading in English Act permitted courtroom business to be done in English. The Anglo-Norman French normally used...
...stations. The Chilean Government saw the advantages of steam travel and the new iron horses (as steam locomotives were referred to) from Britain, North America and across Europe. They opened...
...this weapon could cause huge damage and yet it did not use bullets or explosions; it used words. The weapon was “Black Propaganda” – creating enemy propaganda that Germans would...
...have determined...to present facts and general arguments based upon those facts’ (Malvern, 2004, p.17). Masterman did not want the educated public to feel that Wellington House were trying to trick...
...because the prevailing attitude was that the war would be quick ‘all over by Christmas’, as the saying went. A fast, campaign that overcame resistance quickly could use existing, less...