The Little Book of England

Did you know?

• The first African community to arrive in England was stationed at Aballava on Hadrian's Wall to keep out the Picts.

• Admiral Robert FitzRoy, creator of the Met Office, was so upset by criticism of his weather forecasts that he shot himself.

• While studying at Cambridge, Charles Darwin formed the 'Glutton Club' for the purpose of eating unusual animals.

• Ada Lovelace wrote a computer code in the nineteenth century, before a working computer had even been invented.

• Maids of Ho...