(Continued from part one)
Rock around the clock
Before the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll and its arrival in Britain, the most popular form of music amongst young people was Skiffle. Influenced ...
What was life like as a teenager 60 years ago in the mid 1950s?
We have a Technicolor image of post-war 50s, but whilst America experienced fast-rising rates of prosperity and ...
It may seem curious to discover that the woman who eventually founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America spent a good portion of her life in Wellesbourne. ...
Having rented a summer home in Lochs, she called together a group of girls in the Scottish Highlands, and started her first troop of Girl Guides. When she returned to ...
In Anglo-Saxon times (broadly 410 AD to 1066 AD), what we know as ‘Warwickshire’ was gradually taking shape. Over a thousand years ago, our county would have looked very different. ...