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Comrie: Birthplace of Modern Seismology
didn’t matter how hard I tried, nothing moved. I stamped my feet. Nothing. I jumped. Nothing. Thinking I needed more weight, I picked up my heavy rucksack and jumped again. Still nothing. I peered through the glass, my nose squashed flat against it so my eyeballs were...
How a Victorian Man Prepared the World for Internet-Shopping
apoleon may have called the British a nation of shopkeepers, but it was a young 19th century Welsh draper who turned the British into a nation of mail-order shoppers. On 16th October 1834, Pryce Pryce-Jones was born in the small village of Llanwchaiarn, one mile from...
Father of the Co-operative Movement
wo hundred and fifty years ago, one of the UK’s most enlightened and pioneering social reformers was born. The changes he implemented in his mills grew into a movement that many of us see on our high streets today.Robert Owen was born into humble beginnings on 14th...
