[Misc] Most important people, concepts and events in English history?

[Norman Potting]

Station X, Tommy Flowers and Alan Turing

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Leaving aside your egregious use of line spacing for spurious effect, surely you realise the British Empire, the colonisation of Africa, the abolition of slavery, the history of the struggle of trade unions in the coal industry from Tonypandy to Orgreave, and the second World War are all momentous parts of UK history, and widely feature in present day history carricula?

I don't know if there ever was a statue of Savile anywhere; if there was it's removal was simply refuse collection and not significant in history. If Swanny is looking to removed statues to highlight momentous parts of British history, he should probably also disregard as totally irrelevant the demise of Al-Fayed's ghastly effigy of Michael Jackson too!

Indeed. In seriousness I do think that England is the finest nation in the world. Part of the reason I decided to stay here. And I am being perfectly serious.

 

[Eeyore]

Thank you all, very useful actually. I've studied my arse off today and will be doing it for tonight and early tomorrow as well. My chances of passing it are slim but it's starting to feel a little bit possible now.



Not disagreeing.

Your location btw, I think it is supposed to be "Pattknull med Haksprut" rather than "Patknull med Haksprut". Unless I'm missing something...

I wish I hadn't GOOGLED that.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Everything starts and ends with.......

The NHS

 

[Gwylan]

I wish I hadn't GOOGLED that.

And me. God knows what sort of ads I'm going to get now

 

[El Presidente]

And me. God knows what sort of ads I'm going to get now

I have the DVD version of the subject matter it that helps?

 

[Gwylan]

I have the DVD version of the subject matter it that helps?

Er no.... (hastily moves on)

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

The great iPad THEFT of 2011 is a key moment in English history.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Basically, we invaded a shit load of countries, made a shit load of cash, blew the lot fighting the Germans and now the fuzzy-wuzzies are out for revenge.

 

[Mellotron]

Some key parts of recent English history

• Rod Hull's roof death

• Michael Barrymore's My Kind Of Music - particularly "See You When You Get There" - cultural significance thereof

• David Blaine stuck in a glass box 30 feet in the air by London's Tower Bridge while a man uses a drone to tempt him with a cheeseburger

• Brian Harvey from East 17 running himself over after eating 4 jacket potatoes

• Evolution of the Grange Hill theme tune - see: "Chicken Man" (1978–1987, 2008) /// "Chicken Man" (re-recording) (1988–1989) /// "Grange Hill theme" (1990–2007)

• Olly Murs' Soccer Aid career

Thank you all, very useful actually. I've studied my arse off today and will be doing it for tonight and early tomorrow as well. My chances of passing it are slim but it's starting to feel a little bit possible now.

No worries mate - this is what NSC is great at, bringing knowledge together.

Hope my humble contrinbution helps.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Station X, Tommy Flowers and Alan Turing

is station X like babestation

 

[Justice]

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... Lloyd invented the patent crop rotator

Barry

 

[SeagullinExile]

Can't be arsed to read the whole thread, but someone must of mentioned Colludon?

The last major land battle ever fought on these islands of ours.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

[MENTION=38333]Swansman[/MENTION] how was the exam?

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Oh there was something called Brexit, you may not have heard about it.