The Defence of Basing House portable computer Norse explorer Thorvald Eriksson fighting

Norse explorer Thorvald Eriksson fighting Native Americans

'Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel'

the Boat Race featured a match between teams from the Universities of Oxford and Harvard

Portrait of Sir John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs (1882-1963) who played cricket for Surrey and England

In response to their hunger strikes several suffragettes were subjected to being force fed

The Defence of Basing House portable computer Norse explorer Thorvald Eriksson fighting'The Defence of Basing House', 1640s, (19th century). Scene from a mural fresco by Charles West Cope in the Peers Corridor, Palace of Westminster, showing the Cavaliers fighting the Parliamentary Army near Basingstoke. Illustration from Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905).