🎨The Convalescent
Gwen John
1919

This is one of ten very similar paintings which show the same girl sitting in a room suffused with soft, pale light.

👤Spencer Perceval
1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812

A British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, and the only solicitor-general or attorney-general to have become prime minister.

🛄Accrington
Founded 1968
Population 35,000 to 37,000 (2026)

A town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about 4 miles (6 km) east of Blackburn, 6 miles (10 km) west of Burnley, 13 miles (21 km) east of Preston, 20 miles (32 km) north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to "Accy".

🍿Brazil (1985)
Director Terry Gilliam

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

📊Aviva
Founded 30 May 2000
Industry: Insurance

A British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 25.2 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general insurer and a leading life and pensions provider. Aviva is also the second-largest general insurer in Canada.

🍔Black pudding scotch egg
England

A type of scotch egg made with black pudding as the key ingredient. Apart from the black pudding, this tasty snack and street food item is usually made with eggs, minced pork, breadcrumbs, parsley, salt, pepper, and oil.

📺Horrible Histories
16 April 2009 – 4 August 2014
Musical, Comedy, Sketch comedy, Parody, Educational, Black comedy

A British live-action historical and musical sketch comedy television series, based on the bestselling book series of the same name by Terry Deary. The show was produced for CBBC by Lion Television with Citrus Television and ran for five series of thirteen half-hour episodes, with additional one-off seasonal and Olympic specials.

💡Power loom
1785

A mechanized loom that automates the weaving of cloth through leveraging mechanical power. It interlaces warp and weft threads via mechanisms like cams, gears, levers, and pulleys, replicating motions previously done manually. The mechanization of weaving dramatically increased production efficiency, contributing to the rise of large-scale textile factories during the Industrial Revolution

🎵Van Morrison
31 August 1945 - present
Blue-eyed soul, Celtic, Rock, R&B, Folk, Blues, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Christian

A Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career started in the 1960s. Morrison's albums have performed well in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK Top 40, as well as internationally, including in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.

📍Canterbury Cathedral
Completed 1834
England

The cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Located in Canterbury, Kent, it is on the site of one of the oldest Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. Its formal title is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury.

📅Waterloo Day
18 June

The date of the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815. It is remembered and celebrated each year by certain regiments of the British Army, in the same way that the Royal Navy celebrates Trafalgar Day (21 October).

🏆Katie Archibald
2016 Rio de Janeiro
2020 Tokyo
Women's team pursuit
Women's Madison

A former elite racing cyclist, specialising in endurance track cycling events in which she represented Great Britain and Scotland.

📖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.