England’s one of the oldest Scout groups in the country celebrated its centenary with a visit from the grandson of the founder of the Scout movement Lord Baden-Powell. Dursley 1st Scouts was founded in 1908, just one year after the Scout movement was started by Robert Baden-Powell and as part of their celebrations grandson Michael [...]
First the Women’s Institute released a video sex guide and now the scouts are at it, so to speak. The Scout Association is to teach recruits about sex and give advice on sexual health. “Be prepared” is the motto of the movement, the Times reminds us, while also making clear that Robert Baden-Powell, its founder, [...]
Be Prepared. For rising sea levels, shrinking polar regions, diminishing glaciers, drier droughts, wetter floods, more intense cyclones, say a growing global cadre of scientists. But the phrase is also the motto of the worldwide Scout movement, which this year celebrates 100 years since the first issue of that seminal publication Scouting for Boys by [...]
A life size sculpture of Lord Baden-Powell was unveiled on Wednesday 13 August to celebrate Poole’s scouting connections. Following a brief written by Borough of Poole’s Arts Development Unit in partnership with the Poole District Scout Council , artist David Annand was commissioned to sculpt the bronze figure.
Sited near to where ferries depart to [...]
Kirby-le-Soken, England, Aug 6 (Reuters Life!) - Many Scouts may still meet in damp draughty village halls, but those wanting to widen their circle of friends have also joined up in the virtual world on social networking Web site Facebook.
“First Facebook” Scout troop has only been up and running for a year but can already [...]
On a typical London night in 1909, when England’s capital was in the grips of “pea soup” fog, traffic had come to an almost complete standstill and the feeble lights from the street lamps penetrated only a few feet into the gloomy murkiness.
Through the darkness a man walking slowly along the street stopped under a [...]
I am currently rereading Brian Roberts’ Those Bloody Women which tells the story about women who took on the British regime during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 in their own inimitable ways. Some were pro-war. Others were anti-war, but they set their own terms on which they were going to live through their men’s war.
In many [...]
BP (Baden Powell) named after the founder of the Boy Scout movement International Hotel in Hong Kong is located 35 minutes from Hong Kong International Airport and is located just back from Kowloon Park as well as the convenience of shopping at the nearby Park Lane Shopper’s Boulevard and the stores, restaurants and sights of [...]
The Baden Powell or the BP House as it is commonly referred to, is a scouting hostel and conference centre in South Kensington, London that was constructed as a memorial to the founding father of the scouting movement Lord Baden Powell. The building which belongs to the Scouts Association holds a number of important memorabilia [...]
Olave St.Clair Soames was born at Stubbing Court, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England on February 22, 1889. The world was then a very different place from the one we know today. Queen Victoria was still on the throne, and there were no aeroplanes, televisions or cinemas, and very few motor cars. Women would have to wait another [...]
