Whilst “scouting” for pictures of the Boy Scout Memorial for the last post, we came across this picture of Lord Robert Baden-Powell (and wife Olave’s) gravestone. Note the circle with the dot inside; ostensibly this is the traditional Boy Scout trail sign for “I have gone home.”
With the support of World Scouting, Australia Post has developed a special range of products celebrating 100 years of Scouting in Australia. Included in the range is a Baden-Powell stamp pack consisting of stamps from Australia, Portugal, Uruguay and Papua New Guinea, and a Scouts stamp and ingot set.
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 [...]
The first headmaster of Stowe school, J F Roxburgh, declared his goal to be turning out young men who would be “acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck”. A mixture of courtesy and courage used to be essential to the idea of a British citizen’s character. Brits were the sort of people who [...]
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.
Dear friends from the Scout (Pengakap), just wondering did you ever notice that Scouts movement was actually started from the Boys’ Brigade? Instead, founder of Scouts movement, Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, was a BB Officer back in 1900. Scouting Movemnent was first used in the BB for the Boys’ Brigade Scout Section when Robert Baden-Powell served [...]
