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6 Things About the UK Today
- Morecambe and Wise: record-breaking TV favourites July 28, 2026Iconic comedy duo Morecambe and Wise reached their peak of popularity in Britain in the 1970s, having discovered the winning formula for combining theatrical variety and celebrity involvement with prime time family televison. This led to them drawing a record TV programme viewing audience of 28 million, and becoming a Christmas TV tradition.
- The World Wide Web - a Briton's free gift to the world July 28, 2026The World Wide Web is generally acknowledged to have been invented by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (pictured) whilst working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva. He also created the first website.
- Wife auctions July 28, 2026Anyone who has read Thomas Hardy's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" will remember the pivotal early scene where a young labourer, unable to find farm work at an agricultural fair, gets drunk and auctions off his wife and baby. Did the "common folk" really sell their wives like cattle?
- Glevum Games of Gloucester - pioneering game manufacturers July 28, 2026In the early 20th century, parlour games became more popular, diversifying from board games. Manufacturer Glevum Games (founded in 1894 in Gloucester by the Roberts Brothers) were at one point considered to be the largest maker of games in the United Kingdom, and produced a vast range of products.
- Corgarff Castle - in splendid Highland isolation July 28, 2026Corgarff Castle, near Strathdon by Cairngorms National Park in Scotland, has a striking look - as a result of changes made over the years. Originally created as a tower house in the 1500s, it was altered in the Georgian period to create a fort for government troops, and this has left it looking strangely Napoleonic, […]
- Fingal's Cave - a volcanic geological inspiration July 28, 2026Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is known for its dramatic shape and natural acoustics. It is formed entirely from hexagonal basalt columns, similar in structure to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.
