Lynxes, known as Britain’s little lions, survived in Yorkshire until the sixth century AD. Their bones have been found in caves all over the country yet the Shropshire village of Lostford (“ford of the lynx” in Old English) is believed to be the only lynx-associated name in the country. Europe’s two largest predators, bears and wolves, appear frequently in folklore and fairytales. Yet the third largest predator, the lynx, is missing.

The novel follows the travels of two Frenchmen, Jacques (representing Verne) and Jonathan (Verne's friend Aristide Hignard), on a journey from Paris to Scotland. [3] Plot [ edit ] Such domestic garages made only a minor impact on the appearance of English towns and villages before 1939. What did make a substantial difference, though, was the need to park cars away from home. Londoners already owned more than 40,000 cars in 1910 and wanted to use them to get to places. Large car parks were built before the second war in seaside towns, in city centres, at railway stations and at entertainment venues. The model was the stable, thousands of which were crammed into city centres to accommodate hundreds of thousands of horses. Like stables early city centre garages were multi story, but had lifts and turntables to move the vehicles. After 1918 the first ramps began to appear in garages, cheaper, to run, faster to operate and more reliable. Those in the Bluebird garage on Kings Road, London designed by the car park specialist, Robert Sharpe in 1923-4 were amongst the first; the Bluebird is also an early example of a commercial car park with pumps on the forecourt. Eventually the staggered ramp system that is almost universally used for multi-storey car parks was introduced from America, first in Poland Street Soho London in 1922. Kenyan man: I fought with the British in the Burma Campaign in the Second World War. When I returned home to Kenya, the British had promised education and employment opportunities. They never came. So I used my life savings and travelled to the motherland. I imagined being welcomed as a hero, but people didn’t want to live side by side with me. When I arrived my life was extremely hard, because of the colour of my skin, people wouldn’t rent me a room. Boudicca: I am Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. When my husband died, he left his kingdom both to me and the Roman emperor, Nero, to share.Among other things, this would mean children travelling to and from school in darkness, putting them at greater risk. Lighter mornings in the winter are also better for postal workers and those in construction and farming, who typically begin work much earlier than many others.” Before long, they’d built so much that Britain didn’t look too different from Rome itself apart from the weather of course. The Romans even brought animals, like rabbits to Britain. And stinging nettles too! The Romans also built temples to worship their many gods – like Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus. I was refused entry into the local church and couldn’t even find anywhere to get my hair cut. Eventually, I did find somewhere to live when I rented a room from a Jamaican family. The pair left when John Major was prime minister; living in Hong Kong made home news feel “like a movie playing out somewhere else”, says Andy. “Things like 9/11 would happen, or Iraq, but you weren’t part of it.” Eppure non si trova solamente questo, in questa cronaca di viaggio, che via via che procede assomiglia sempre di più ad un quaderno di appunti su luoghi visitati.

The countryside was deluged by visitors, in trains, busses, cars, bikes and on foot. Increasingly long holidays granted to workers meant that by 1937 fifteen million people (a third of the population) took an annual holiday. Cars were, at first, not a means of business conveyance, they were a leisure accessory. Early Motor magazines focussed not on cars, but where to drive them. As a result the market was flooded with guidebooks aimed at the motor tourist. In 1907 James Edmund Vincent the distinguished Times journalist and former editor of Country Life wrote Through East Anglia in a Motor Car one of the first books written specially for motor touring. Vincent announced in his introduction ‘A new method of travel, in fact, brings in its train the need for a new species of guide-book’. He recognised that for the first time the principal enjoyment of a day out was not reaching the destination, but was getting there. The tour was the thing and his guidebook gave advice on routes and roads, even on the best place to buy driving gloves. Meanwhile, the Roman army is busy conquering Wales. But messengers soon bring them news of Boudicca's campaign, and their plans are changed.They all got on a ship: the Empire Windrush, which left the Caribbean to travel thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. This was the first time so many Caribbean people had come to live in Britain. Many more arrived in the following years. In school, Caribbean children were taught that they were British citizens and that Britain was their motherland or mother country. This meant that people believed that they would be welcomed, that Britain would look after them and that their lives would be significantly better.

If you go over your personal allowances when bringing personal goods into the UK, you must make a declaration and pay any tax and duty due. I think it’s important to gauge public feeling rather than putting out garish newspaper headlines about how they’re going to do it all tomorrow,” he says. Where do Europe’s lynxes live? Passeggiando tra gli stand di @piulibri2022 mi sono imbattuta in quello di @robinedizioni e ho scovato questa chicca, scorrendo i vari titoli sul banco.After burning down Colchester, Boudicca's army destroyed the Roman town of London, before heading north to St Albans. When I Zoomed them last week, my friends asked to remain anonymous in this article, already nervous about who might be snooping. The following table shows the maximum amounts of alcohol and tobacco you can declare using the online service, when you go over your personal allowances. Alcoholic beverages and alcohol

But despite a small group of buildings such as Brydon’s Chelsea Town hall (1885-7), John Shaw’s Wellington College (1856-9) and the Municipal Buildings, Leicester (1873-5) by Frances John Hames, interest in the later English renaissance did not take off until the turn of the century. In 1897 Reginald Blomfield published A History of Renaissance Architecture in England 1500-1800. The crescendo of the book is the work of Sir Christopher Wren whom he saw as the most English of English architects. So this was the first choice for artists and architects to turn modern. The alternative was to continue in what should be called the historicist vein. In other words architecture that took its lead from past historical styles. As I explained in my last lecture before the First World War this was a style called arts and crafts, or sometimes Queen Anne. It was a funny amalgam of things partly Tudor partly a revival of interest in Christopher Wren, but its essence was a revolt against the standardisation and mechanisation of industrialisation. I’m going to start here tonight, as this was the established look that people were interested in and against which the proponents of modern styles reacted.This survey paints a fairly depressing picture of how gender inequality has been exacerbated during the pandemic, with women really struggling to cope,” said Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts. Narrator: In 1948, Britain was just starting to recover from the Second World War. Towns and cities had been bombed, thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed and they all needed to be rebuilt. Hetherington believes southern Scotland and Kielder forest could support about 50 lynxes in total, and the Highlands could support 400. His research suggests Scotland has more than 20,000 sq km of suitable habitat for lynxes. The less-populated parts of the UK are better suited to lynxes because roads are a significant cause of mortality and affect a population’s ability to colonise new landscapes. Si sa, quando si parla di narrativa di viaggio, io mi sciolgo e cerco sempre qualcosa di sfizioso, che possa in qualche modo attirare la mia attenzione.