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Greene King has renamed four of its pubs over fears the monikers had ‘racist’ connotations – sparking outrage on social media over the ‘woke’ move. Three pubs called The Black Boy – in Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury in Suffolk, and Shinfield in Berkshire – and another called The Black’s Head in Wirksworth, Derbyshire were renamed following … Read more
Elite private school renames Clive of India house over military leader’s links to colonialism and Empire Robert Clive was a notoriously wealthy military leader in the 18th Century He attended Merchant Taylor’s School for Boys in Hertfordshire for one year He went on to become a clerk for the East India Company before rising up … Read more
A pub landlord has jokingly renamed an ale ‘Substantial Meal’ in a cheeky bid to get around new Covid-19 restrictions. Brett Mendoza, 40, who owns the Caxton Arms in Brighton, East Sussex, came up with the idea while discussing what constitutes a substantial meal with another landlord after the latest measures were announced last week. … Read more
A pub landlord has jokingly renamed an ale ‘Substantial Meal’ in a cheeky bid to get around new Covid-19 restrictions. Brett Mendoza, 40, who owns the Caxton Arms in Brighton, East Sussex, came up with the idea while discussing what constitutes a substantial meal with another landlord after the latest measures were announced last week. … Read more
Disney kills off the Fox name: Conglomerate renames 20th Century Fox Television and replaces iconic title card that dates from the 1940s as it further distances itself from the Murdoch empire Disney on Monday finalized the name change for 20th Century Fox Television Company acquired most 21st Century Fox assets in 2017 for $71 billion … Read more
Outrage as M&S RENAMES the Falklands on globe using the Argentinian name ‘Islas Malvinas’ instead as it is called a ‘slap in the face’ for British troops who died in 1982 war The globes has the Argentinian name followed by Falklands Islands in brackets It also lists the capital city as ‘Puerto Argentino’ and not … Read more
University College London renames two lecture theatres and a building honouring Victorian eugenicists Karl Pearson and Francis Galton University heads took the decision over the two men’s ‘problematic history’ Galton coined eugenics term and gave UCL his personal collection and archive His bequest made country’s first professorial chair of eugenics Karl Pearson Signs bearing their … Read more
Nancy Grace Roman was one of the first women to work at NASA and a central figures in the development of the Hubble Telescope. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 16, 1925. As a child, she was drawn to the study of outer space.’I was just fascinated.’ Roman said in a short NASA … Read more