RMS Empress of Britain was a steam turbine ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 by John Brown shipyard in Scotland, owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and operated by Canadian Pacific ...

Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley. But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, ...

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids. Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface. Wikiwand ...

A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.

Experience the festivities and classic vehicles of the by gone era at the 28th George Old Car Show happening on Saturday 8 ...

GEORGE NEWS - At the 28th George Old Car Show on 8 February 2025, Rolls-Royce and the equally exalted upper-crust British ...

The problem is that tariffs do most damage to the nation applying them. Yes, they may incidentally harm Chinese (or Mexican ...

The layman’s narrative of the 1930s is that America’s Smoot-Hawley tariffs set off a beggar-thy-neighbour spiral and caused ...

In her novel South Riding, set in the early 1930s and published posthumously in 1936, Winifred Holtby used the responsibilities of local government to structure her portrayal of a community of ...

A collection of photos from the 1930s show what a region looked like from the sky. The pictures of the North East, released by Historic England, were taken by Arthur Hobart, an early commercial ...