Author: Simon Pearce

Buying the perfect Christmas gift seems to get harder and harder each year. What do you get for the person who has everything or the

At 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918, Germany and the Allies signed an Armistice, ending the First World War and over four years of fighting

In part I of our blog, we learned about the ancient English ceremony of ‘landing the pie’, which was revived in 1923. But who was

An ancient English ceremony forgotten for over a century was revived on an island in the River Thames in London in May 1923 with champion