Changing Times, Changing Eating Habits

by Monique Barb - Yesterday I ate a hamburger and I felt sick. If I had eaten a soup I would have felt much better. I think the most important thing for our health is the food we eat and of course the way we eat it. Our grandparents tell us they fed better than us. The vegetables and the fruits they ate were not as polluted as those we eat today. The food was more tasteful in the past. On ...

Date added: 17 February '07

Great Britain History : Life on the Manor

by Monique Barb - Life in the castle was chiefly for the rich and their retainers. The vast majority of people lived in mud huts or timber huts clustered together for safety and surrounded by the large open fields which they farmed. The manor was very much the same as it had been in Saxon times and the scenes you see on the opposite page, taken from the Bayeux Tapestry, did not alter very much ...

Date added: 04 October '07