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. However, the online service uses the simplified rate for goods in the remaining categories, which have a duty rate lower than 2.5%. Lynx UK Trust believes Kielder forest in Northumberland is the most suitable place to reintroduce lynxes because it is a large forested area, has few roads and lots of deer. However, local people are divided over this contentious issue and at the end of 2018 a trial application was turned down by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs after advice from Natural England raised concerns.

Meanwhile, the Roman army is busy conquering Wales. But messengers soon bring them news of Boudicca's campaign, and their plans are changed. Simon Thurley’s four lectures complete his survey of Englishbuilding from the Saxons to the present day. The theme is modernity andtradition. This is the story of how British architects struggled to find anarchitectural language that met the needs and aspirations of a society in astate of rapid change while negotiating deep and popular traditions and beliefs.Two World Wars shook the nation producing the seemingly contradictory emotionsof nostalgia and progress. Out of this has come the world in which we live. In the Caribbean, thousands of men and women had served in the British Armed Forces. After the war, some of them answered an advert to come to Britain, where there were lots of different jobs available. Other people just wanted to see England, which they had heard so much about. We get an idea of what the native Britons looked like thanks to a description of them in here. But do remember, of course, they were Caesar's enemy, so his opinion might be a little bit one-sided. " All Britons used woad to dye their bodies a blue colour, which makes them terrifying when they are fighting in battle."

Along with Nato, the EU is the most important international organisation in the struggle to counter the threat from Putin’s Russia. That Ukraine and the countries of the western Balkans desperately want to join, proves that you can dislike the EU, but you can not deny its relevance. Politicians and officials from the UK and Europe now meet much more frequently than they have in years, as part of the coordinated western response to Putin’s aggression. After the havoc that Brexit and Covid combined has wreaked on personal interactions between Britons and other Europeans, this is extremely important, because it contributes to the sorely needed rebuilding of trust and connections. 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 First World War brought far reaching changes to England. These included ahuge expansion of the suburbs, the massive growth of motoring and a debate abouthow England should look in the future. This was not a simple battle betweenconservationists and developers; it was a search for the soul of England.

But some have campaigned for British time to be brought in line with other European countries to reduce accidents. This would make it two hours ahead of GMT in the summer and one hour ahead in the winter. The rural values expressed in the garden cities were a political mantra too. Stanley Baldwin The dominating political figure of the inter war years clearly saw the importance of England’s rural heritage. The First World War had a transforming effect on Baldwin’s outlook and opinions and on his political career. He was too old to fight and in 1916, with a healthy inheritance turned to politics with a determination to serve his country in a different capacity. In an important speech in 1931 he laid out his motivations for entering politics. He said that ‘after four years of slaughter and destruction many times four years would be needed to repair even part of what had been lost… and after such a storm should there not be calm, and would not the sun come out and the world be more beautiful than before?’ Narrator: Beretta and her father follow Boudicca and her army. They head for Colchester, an important Roman town, and burn it to the ground. 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?The poll also exposes the UK’s domestic care gap, with 73% of respondents saying they did all or most of the laundry, while 62% did the food shopping and 61% did all or most of the cleaning and tidying up. The only domestic areas approaching parity were children’s bath and bedtimes and pet care, while 51% said their partner was the most likely to empty the bins. Perhaps you might take a flat at Marine Court in Hastings, built in 1937, which was described as a liner on land, or go to the movies in the cinema on the front at Margate, now the entrance to Dreamland but, when built in 1935 was the first entertainment building to have a tower with a thin fin attached, the model for thousands of others. On your holiday you would certainly want to bathe in one of the vast Lidos constructed on the beaches of most resorts. Here is Saltdean Lido built in 1938 the most sophisticated of all the seaside Lidos consciously influenced by aircraft and airport design. 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.

Hovering somewhere between a novel and a travelogue, this semi-autobiographical account of Verne's first trip to Britain (accompanied by his friend, the composer Aristide Hignard) is an early, formative work which did not see publication until 1989. (This English translation appeared in 1992.) At the time of its writing, it was rejected by Verne's publisher in favor of "Five Weeks in a Balloon," and while the latter novel is of dubious quality and value, it was a shrewd choice on the part of the publisher, since it did much to establish Verne's long-germinating career as a full-time writer. While the First World War did not mark a decicive break in English architecture, the second was cataclysmic. So I would like to invite you to join me on 6 March to hear ‘Coming to terms with Modern Times’ which will be about architecture after 1945. The effect of this was considerable and I want to turn, just for a few minutes to an entirely new category of architecture, buildings for the motor car. For those wanting to buy one of these new-fangled devices the first car show rooms were set up in carriage repositories and occasionally in normal town centre shops but in the years immediately before the first world war interest was growing in the design of purpose-built motor showrooms, indeed in the streets around Great Portland Street in London by 1914 there were already 29 show rooms including numbers 19-21 the shop of W.F. Thorne designed by Frank M Elgood in 1907-8. After the war London dealers trading in luxury marques congregated in club land in St James’s. The most splendid was the HQ of Wolseley designed by Curtis Green in 1922 with giant Corinthian columns framing plain cast iron panelling and wrought iron grilles. Inside the space was vaulted and supported by red lacquered Doric columns. Cars were not being advertised and sold on technical specification, but on their elegance and sophistication as leisure machines. Traditional structures did start giving way to showrooms in a modern style in the 1930s. In the exclusive shopping area of Bold Street in Liverpoolthere were a number of dealers housed in modern showrooms with very big windows. Designers often tried to minimise the reflections on the shopwindows by building out canopies to shield them from the light. You’ve probably heard of them, because we’ve named our planets after them. Later on, the Romans decided to believe in just one god and introduced Christianity to Britain too. Some of the native British tribes have agreed to support and work with the Romans, but others are not so happy.There were also other reasons that people were willing to take the opportunity to help rebuild Britain: There were some glimmers of hope, with 63% of respondents saying their family unit was closer as a result of the pandemic. While 69% said their partner had spent more time with the children, 43% said their partner had developed a greater understanding of the demands of childcare, and 24% of the partners of those polled were more likely to take on domestic tasks. While we respect the views of those that want to keep the current system, we must not lose sight of the fact that lives are at stake.” British Summer Time was adopted in Britain in 1916 to save fuel and money (Photo: Getty Images) More money helps fund the fun in Hong Kong too; the average expat household income is up to 50 per cent higher than in Britain, according to some estimates, with many expats still amusingly given a “hardship allowance” from companies after making the move. Baldwin was prime minister 1924-9 and 1935-37 and was effectively deputy Prime Minister 1931-7. Like Margret Thatcher, another Conservative Prime Minister, Baldwin successfully conveyed his personal vision with considerable influence. He saw the post war world as a fragile place, inherently instable in need of careful handling. He strove and succeeded to be a figure that almost rose above politics evoking images that he believed would unify the nation. They were traditional Christian ones of charity and patience, respect and generosity of spirit, but they were underpinned by a sustaining idea of the rural heritage. The image of Baldwin as a countryman was a central part of his appeal, especially in the early years of his first premiership.

But we shouldn’t downplay the significance of this attempt to penalise drug users. This style of punitive politics has become increasingly characteristic of the British state, at the same time as our politicians are failing to find answers to the big economic and constitutional questions of the day. While countries such as Georgia, Germany, Uruguay and the US have all been moving away from the failed “war on drugs” strategy forged in the 1970s, which sought to prohibit drugs and criminalise drug users, the Johnson administration has spent much time trying to breathe new life into these discredited policies. 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. The First World War killed eight million people, and shattered the Victorian age. England had not been in a major war since the defeat of Napoleon, and those who imagined riding to victory in shining breastplates were appalled to end up in a network of muddy trenches that, if stretched out in a long line, would have wound itself once round the globe. 7,000 young men were killed every day in the trenches, while 70 miles away in England people still went to the theatre and smoked cigars. The young archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, later to be one of my predecessors as director of this museum, recalled in his autobiography ‘Those familiar only with the mild casualties of the Second German War can have little appreciation of the carnage which marked its predecessor. It is a typical instance that, of five university students who worked together in the Wroxeter excavations of 1913, one only survived the war. It so happened that the survivor was myself.’ This semi-autobiographical novel (not part of the Extraordinary Voyages) is an account of the journey to England and Scotland that Jules Verne and his friend Aristide Hignard made in 1859. Verne always had a fascination for Scotland, and set two of his extraordinary voyages there ("The Child of the Cavern" and "The Green Ray"). One of the ideas here is to give fixed-penalty notices to first-time offenders, and refer them to drug-awareness courses. There isn’t much difference between this proposal and Sadiq Khan’s plan to pilot “diversion schemes” for cannabis possession in Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. Similar schemes are already being run by a number of police forces, including Durham and Avon & Somerset. They allow police officers to divert people from the criminal justice system and towards rehabilitation or counselling programmes. Yet when Khan announced his plans in London, Priti Patel condemned the London mayor and said he “ has no powers to legalise drugs” (diversion schemes do nothing of the sort).A year after I arrived, there were racially motivated riots in the city. I found work in a nearby textile factory, thanks to my experience doing the same at home. I saved enough to bring my family over in 1960.