Rare P&O SUE Posted January 30, 2021 #14626 Share Posted January 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, wowzz said: I studied it later as current affairs!. When does current end and history begin? Please discuss. Well indeed, I studied it in the 1980’s, it was called ‘modern history’ and we started with the Russian revolution of 1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted January 30, 2021 #14627 Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 minute ago, yorkshirephil said: I still have an Old Peculiar clock, which goes anticlockwise. I have an Old Peculiar too. He's still in bed at the moment, bless him😁 Avril 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted January 30, 2021 #14628 Share Posted January 30, 2021 8 minutes ago, wowzz said: I studied it later as current affairs!. When does current end and history begin? Please discuss. I would assume the clue is in the word 'current'. In living memory. For instance, WW1 - history and WW2 would be current affairs. Only a guess, so feel free to disagree. Avril Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare DamianG Posted January 30, 2021 #14629 Share Posted January 30, 2021 17 hours ago, Harry Peterson said: Thanks! Never thought of that - great idea. We've just had a supply of Cornish Gouda (!) delivered direct from the farm, our meat comes to the door from local butchers, so why not fish. Just make sure you don't end up with the wrong frozen skates 😃 Frozen Skates 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted January 30, 2021 #14630 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, DamianG said: Just make sure you don't end up with the wrong frozen skates 😃 Frozen Skates If he does we want lots of pictures😄 Avril 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann141 Posted January 30, 2021 #14631 Share Posted January 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, Adawn47 said: I would assume the clue is in the word 'current'. In living memory. For instance, WW1 - history and WW2 would be current affairs. Only a guess, so feel free to disagree. Avril Children still study WW2 in History lessons today.I think even The Falklands and the Iran Crisis would be studied as History.I would think Current affairs would be events that are currently(or very recently )affecting us now but I am happy for others to disagree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted January 30, 2021 #14632 Share Posted January 30, 2021 52 minutes ago, Adawn47 said: I remember them Harry, but my Guinness favourite was the toucan. ''Guinness Is Good For You'' and '' My Goodness, My Guinness''😉 Avril Had a feeling you might, Avril. Original at the Festival of Britain in 1951 (too early for both of us) but it then moved to Battersea Park, and a few more were made for seaside resorts. Huge things, amazing pieces of engineering, must have cost tens of thousands in today’s terms, and the nearest equivalent now would be the Emett clock at the Victoria Centre in Nottingham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted January 30, 2021 #14633 Share Posted January 30, 2021 It rained all night but it has stopped now. 3°C and cloudy. Well another day in paradise.😎 Think we will have a day at home for a change.🤫😩😥 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted January 30, 2021 #14634 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, ann141 said: Children still study WW2 in History lessons today.I think even The Falklands and the Iran Crisis would be studied as History.I would think Current affairs would be events that are currently(or very recently )affecting us now but I am happy for others to disagree My modern history is our last cruise.😩😭 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted January 30, 2021 #14635 Share Posted January 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, DamianG said: Just make sure you don't end up with the wrong frozen skates 😃 Frozen Skates Those skates are no good for Harry in his condition , he would end up going downhill fast 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann141 Posted January 30, 2021 #14636 Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 hour ago, kalos said: Yes old Jim had a few admirers, some might say he was out of this world. Casting my mind back to when I was young was the sheer horror of the Aberfan pit tip disaster. Living in a mining village I think it was felt more by the locals ,even though we lived over 190 miles away ,we felt their pain at that time. I was ten at the time . I think I am a similar age to you, Kalos (21!) and my first real memory of something horrific on the News was the Aberfan mining disaster, probably because school age children were affected and I was at primary school.The other news I really remember (within a year or 2 of that ) was a Boxing Day Fire at a hotel in the small town where I lived.It made the headlines because eleven people died and subsequently huge improvements in fire safety were made nationally including fire safety doors. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted January 30, 2021 #14637 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, ann141 said: Children still study WW2 in History lessons today.I think even The Falklands and the Iran Crisis would be studied as History.I would think Current affairs would be events that are currently(or very recently )affecting us now but I am happy for others to disagree I've cheated, sorry🥺 According to Professor Google ''In Britian an obvious definition would be the 30 year rule on the release of information'' I just hate not knowing, don't you? but who's to say the Prof is right either😉 Avril Avril Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann141 Posted January 30, 2021 #14638 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Just now, Adawn47 said: I've cheated, sorry🥺 According to Professor Google ''In Britian an obvious definition would be the 30 year rule on the release of information'' I just hate not knowing, don't you? but who's to say the Prof is right either😉 Avril Avril Must be a lot of teachers getting it wrong then!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted January 30, 2021 #14639 Share Posted January 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, kalos said: Those skates are no good for Harry in his condition , he would end up going downhill fast No help needed, Kalos - been doing that since my parents kicked me out for wearing a donkey jacket! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshirephil Posted January 30, 2021 #14640 Share Posted January 30, 2021 I was great at history in school, but I suppose there wasn't as much of it when I was at school😁 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted January 30, 2021 #14641 Share Posted January 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, Harry Peterson said: Had a feeling you might, Avril. Original at the Festival of Britain in 1951 (too early for both of us) but it then moved to Battersea Park, and a few more were made for seaside resorts. Huge things, amazing pieces of engineering, must have cost tens of thousands in today’s terms, and the nearest equivalent now would be the Emett clock at the Victoria Centre in Nottingham. Not that kind Harry, I thought you meant the pub advertising clocks, those I do remember. I've not seen that one though, It's amazing!! Avril 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted January 30, 2021 #14642 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Harry Peterson said: No help needed, Kalos - been doing that since my parents kicked me out for wearing a donkey jacket! Really !! Your parents were not up to date with the fashion of the day . In our village they were all the rage everyone wore them (even the women ) They all had A designer label on them... Trying to remember the label ...? I've remembered N C B 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted January 30, 2021 #14643 Share Posted January 30, 2021 First memories when I was 7 in 1963. Martin Luther King I have a dream speech. Kennedy assassination. The polio vaccination at school which was taken orally in a sugar lump. Graham. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted January 30, 2021 #14644 Share Posted January 30, 2021 1 minute ago, grapau27 said: The polio vaccination at school which was taken orally in a sugar lump. Was still the injection when I had my Polio done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted January 30, 2021 #14645 Share Posted January 30, 2021 21 minutes ago, grapau27 said: My modern history is our last cruise.😩😭 Seems like ancient history. Watching Saturday kitchen. Just waiting for Gary to tell us when P&O start sailing again.🚣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted January 30, 2021 #14646 Share Posted January 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, kalos said: Really !! Your parents were not up to date with the fashion of the day . In our village they were all the rage everyone wore them (even the women ) They all had A designer label on them... Trying to remember the label ...? I've remembered N C B You could get the restaurant donkey jacket. It had. WIMPEY. on the back. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted January 30, 2021 #14647 Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, kalos said: Really !! Your parents were not up to date with the fashion of the day . In our village they were all the rage everyone wore them (even the women ) They all had A designer label on them... Trying to remember the label ...? I've remembered N C B Good one! No mines dahn sarf, but plenty of dockers. Popular with students (cheap) but not popular with a mother expecting conformity. So I left home and joined the circus. 🤡 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted January 30, 2021 #14648 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Been to hospital this morning.☹️ 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted January 30, 2021 #14649 Share Posted January 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, zap99 said: Seems like ancient history. Watching Saturday kitchen. Just waiting for Gary to tell us when P&O start sailing again.🚣 Things are getting better , more vaccines are being made , spring is almost here and they have cancelled Britain's Got Talent .So there is light at the end of the tunnel ! 7 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted January 30, 2021 #14650 Share Posted January 30, 2021 59 minutes ago, P&O SUE said: Well indeed, I studied it in the 1980’s, it was called ‘modern history’ and we started with the Russian revolution of 1917. Two old ladies are sitting on the deck of a cruise ship. The first one asks, “Have you read Marx?” The other one replies, “Yes. I believe that comes from sitting on these wicker chairs too long .” 4 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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