I found this bookmark/ad in an old book and am impressed by what Eagle Star & British Dominions were offering cover for. For houseowners, it covered the fabric against damage from fire, burglary, housebreaking, explosion of pipes, boilers etc, lightning and thunderbolt, and earthquakes all fair enough, but also subterranean fire, riots and strikes, insurrection … Continue reading
This is a piece of legislation widely hailed as the start of modern democracy in Britain, and it was an incredibly long and hard fought battle to get it onto the statute books. It was in part inspired by the fact that Britain’s population had changed over the centuries since the electoral districts had been … Continue reading
In the article by Mike Jay in the book ‘Gunpowder Plots’, he makes much of the fact that the modern extravaganza began in the 1950s when there was a revival of anti Catholic feeling with the re-establishment of Cahtolic hierarchy in 1850, but the fireworks seem to have been revived in market towns, which is … Continue reading
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