The Military Service of a Victorian Soldier IN DECEMBER 1884, eighteen-year-old Robert James Howman left his home village of Great Ryburgh in Norfolk and travelled to Great Yarmouth, where he enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment. Like many young labourers of Victorian rural England, he sought opportunities beyond those offered by agricultural life. What followed was …
THERE IS something unmistakably British about the Scout movement. Khaki shirts, wide-brimmed 'lemon-squeezer' hats, Bob-a-Job week and 'Ging Gang Goolie' sung around campfires. These things have long been part of the national imagination. Yet the origins of what eventually became a worldwide youth organisation lie not in a humdrum committee room, but in war, national …
THE NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE landscape is quiet now—the fields of Stallingborough stretch calmly toward the Humber, as its lanes wind sedately through the village. It is hard to imagine that this peaceful parish once gave rise to a woman whose unflinching courage challenged the very foundations of Tudor power. Anne Askew, born not far from these …
RAVEN MOON 