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...busy strengthening Medina’s defences. After the Mudros Armistice, the Ottoman Minister of War ordered Fakhri Pasha to surrender his sword and his garrison at Medina. Fakhri refused and was dismissed from his post. He rejected this order, continued to defend Medina from Hussein’s forces, and still flew the Ottoman Sultan’s flag. But the garrison faced starvation due...

...busy lives, many of us are also more and more aware of the importance of ‘down time’, time to be creative, or to follow our passions. The power of the arts to influence our lives for good or bad has been recognised for centuries, and arts therapies form an important part of treatment for a wide range of physical and mental health conditions. More broadly, the arts can...

...business, Green had constructed a giant balloon which could be inflated with coal gas (much cheaper than hydrogen) and begun a residency at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in 1836. His long distance balloon journey in the same year, an unprecedented 18-hour drift across Europe with two passengers (one of whom, Thomas Monck Mason, wrote a lengthy and fascinating account of the...