Toby's experience comes from website design as well as experience running large forums and communities. After he married Debbie he developed a keen interest in history and found himself discussing history quite a lot!
Fact of the Day
Both England and Russia imposed a tax on beards in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, making having a beard a status symbol.
Quote of the Day
"The rights of man are made, not for counter-revolutionaries, but only for sans-culottes.
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~ Collot d'Herbois, French revolutionary
On This Day
1781HMS Victory leads the British fleet to victory over the French off Ushant (24 years before Trafalgar)
1963Kenya gained its independence from Britain.
1975The six-day Balcombe Street Siege ended peacefully. Thousands watched the four IRA members surrender and release their two hostages on TV
1982Some 30,000 women linked arms around the nine-mile perimeter of the Greenham Common military base in Berkshire during the 'Embrace the Base' campaign protesting against nuclear weapons.
1988Thirty-five people died when a busy commuter train crashed into another train that was stopped at a signal just outside Clapham Junction.
