by David Todd | Jul 27, 2015 | exploration, History, Russia
While state relations between the UK and Russia have been very rocky over the poisoning assassination of the ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko using a Russian lunar rover nuclear isotope, and Russia’s annexation of parts of Ukraine, at museum level, at...
by David Todd | Jul 19, 2015 | ESA, History, Seradata News
After the reaction to a reported “sexist” speech made by Nobel-prize winning biochemistry scientist Sir Tim Hunt, 73, forced him to resign from his honorary Professorship post at University College London (UCL), a newly released...
by David Todd | Jul 10, 2015 | History
July marked the 75th anniversary of the start of the three-month-long Battle of Britain during the summer of 1940. It was a close run thing. Using a combination of bravery, skill, innovation, and good old British luck, RAF fighter pilots (“the few”)...
by David Todd | Jul 8, 2015 | History, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
The UK’s finance minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, effectively stole the clothes of some of his own side’s critics in the Conservative Party and those in UKIP by reiterating a commitment to bring UK Defence spending up to the NATO...
by David Todd | Jun 26, 2015 | History, NASA
Four veteran British actors passed away in June. At the age of 93, Sir Christopher Lee died of heart failure. After military service in the Long Range Desert Group, Sir Christopher Lee went on to have a long film career stretching over 60 years, made his name in the...
by David Todd | Jun 13, 2015 | China, History, Technology
In the same month that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and UK Prime Minister David Cameron attended the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a bedrock of the democratic values and freedoms we know today, there was further evidence of...
