A recent report by Engineering UK showed that the engineering sector in the UK contributed an estimated £455.6 billion of the UK’s £1,683 billion GDP in 2014 – a staggering 27.1%. Add to that the fact that the average starting …
If you received a gift of a pair of socks this Christmas, you may reflect for a moment on the importance of these small articles of clothing and a history of innovation. In 1914-18, protecting soldiers from trench foot meant …
The figures were high – 244,1673 killed, wounded, missing and prisoners on the British sector of the Western Front from February 1915 - October 1918. As the technology of warfare developed during WW1, causing death and injury that had not been …
Henry ‘Harry’ Moseley was an exceptionally promising young English physicist in the years immediately before World War I. His work on the X-ray spectra of the elements provided a new foundation for the Periodic Table and contributed to the development …
At the Tower of London, 888,246 ceramic poppies – one for each British and colonial fatality of the First World War - are being added to every day by a team of over 8,000 volunteers, including military personnel. The last …