Formed to campaign for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and sensitive development of British canals and rivers. One of its founders was the author Robert Aickman. The author Elizabeth Jane Howard was employed as part-time secretary to the Association, where she and Aickman met and had a affair.
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Inland Waterways Association
Robert Aickman, 1914 - 1981, author and co-founder of the Inland Waterways As...
Daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Nicknamed "Little Whig" and the subject of one of the famous Kit-Kat Club toasts.
Paste Tense describes why and how the 1st of May became the International Workers' Day, how the first such day, in 1890, was planned in the United Kingdom, and goes on to describe: "The main demons...
Sailors’ Society is an international Christian charity working in ports across the world. After the Napoleonic Wars ended, the need for ships declined, and many former seafarers became destitute. ...
Formed as a result of the last Goon Show. Patron: Prince Charles.
