📖1658

Death of Cromwell. After a lavish funeral his embalmed body is buried in Westminster Abbey.

🎨The Two Travellers
Jack Yeats
1942

The two figures in the painting encounter each other in an epically lit, dramatic, sweeping, peninsular landscape.

👤Elizabeth II
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022

Was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms at her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days is the longest of any British monarch, the second-longest of any sovereign state, and the longest of any queen regnant in history.

🛄Acle
Founded Roman Times
Population 2,800 (2026)

A market town on the River Bure on the Norfolk Broads in Norfolk, located halfway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth. It has the only bridge across the River Bure between Wroxham and Great Yarmouth.

🍿Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Director David Lean

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

📊Johnnie Walker
Founded 1820
Industry: Alcoholic beverage and spirits

A brand of Scotch whisky produced by Diageo in Scotland. It was established in the Scottish burgh of Kilmarnock in 1820, and continued to be produced and bottled at the town's Hill Street plant, once the world's largest bottling plant, until its closure in 2012, a decision announced by Diageo in 2009 which would bring the 190-year association between the brand and Kilmarnock to an end.

🍔Champ
Northern Ireland

Also known as poundies and brúitín, this Irish comfort dish is made with mashed potatoes, spring onions, and copious amounts of butter and milk. Champ originates from the Ulster countryside where it was previously made with stinging nettle in lieu of onions, though that practice is rarely seen today.

📺The English Game
20 March 2020
Historical drama

The story of the invention of football and how it quickly rose to become the world's most popular game by crossing class divides.

💡Spinning jenny
1764–1765

A multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented by James Hargreaves in Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in England.

🎵Brian Eno
15 May 1948 - present
Ambient, Electronic, Minimalism, Pop, Rock

An English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer, author and political activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient music and electronica, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music.

📍Cambridge University
Founded in 1209
England

A collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's third-oldest university in continuous operation.

📅WFTV Awards
December

The Women in Film and Television UK or WFTV Awards are presented in an annual award programme hosted by Women in Film and Television (UK) to the most talented women in UK film, TV and digital media.

🏆John Aspin
1908 London
12 metre class

A Scottish businessman and sailor who competed for the Royal Clyde Yacht Club at Hunters Quay and represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

📖1660

Restoration of the Monarchy. Two and half years after his death, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, is disinterred and executed on 30 January 1661. His head is impaled on a 25 foot pole on the roof of Westminster Hall.

🎨A Battery Shelled
Wyndham Lewis
1919

A number of men are seen working and moving around in a grey, cratered landscape with improvised buildings and shattered trees. Brown, stylised smoke pillars are coming out of the ground. To the left, in front of a pile of ammunition boxes, are three men with calm and serious postures, each looking in a different direction.

👤Tim Berners-Lee
8 June 1955 - present

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

🛄Acton
Founded 6th century
Population 65,000 to 70,000 (2026)

A town in West London, England, within the London Borough of Ealing. It is 6.1 miles (10 km) west of Charing Cross.

🍿Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Director Karel Reisz

A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.