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
The earliest book of English table manners was written by Daniel of Beccles in the time of Henry II. It prohibited elbows on tables, talking with full mouths and scratching armpits. It also gave guidance on what to do if the wife of the host were to make a pass at a guest: he should feign illness.
Quote of the Day
"A French bastard arriving with armed banditti and establishing himself the King of England against the consent of the natives is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original and certainly has no divinity in it.
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~ Thomas Paine, 1776
On This Day
1429Joan of Arc began the Siege of La Charité. The siege was abandoned after a month.
1542An English force of about 3,000 defeated a Scottish force five times the size at the Battle of Solway Moss.
1831Michael Faraday presented his first series of papers on 'Experimental Research into Electricity' to the Royal Society.
1859Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'. It was a cornerstone for theories on evolution.
1974The most complete skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was found in Ethiopia. She was named Lucy after the Beatles' song.
1987The Conservative government abolished free eye tests
