12) The Bank Holidays Act of 1871 introduced extra days off throughout the year. Banks and offices would close and people could take time off work. The first travel agent, a businessman named Thomas Cook, ran trips to the seaside, which were very popular amongst Victorian families — those...
This one-room school was donated by a local family and moved to the Leo French City Park in the 1960s. The Olive Branch School was repaired and repurposed as a museum in memory of the more than 150 rural schools that once dotted the county. The interior was repainted, black boards rein...
corresponded since the 1867 “Artisan Tours” of the Paris Exhibition. Foster had neglected to respond to Kay’s September post. Yet here was another letter to pester and perhaps sadden him with the musings of a man who had lost his mind, his capacity for self-government, and his freedom....
Whether it is marriage, the family, religion, the treatment of women, racism, the government, the economy, or vocation, there is hardly an area of society that escapes Trollope’s scathing reproof. What’s worse is that Trollope fixes his critical eye mainly upon the genteel class, where ...
So that impulse for a better life for all was delayed and frustrated until the second Labour government after WW2. To me Fred was very much an Atlee man. There was a line, possibly in the pilot, something like “I didn’t tramp halfway round Europe to come back and find the country ...