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Appearing as a member of the public on BBC Nationwide ' s On the Spot live election special, Gould confronted Thatcher over the sinking of the Belgrano, an Argentine warship, during the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina. [2] [3]
Nationwide Building Society is the largest retail bank in the United Kingdom (by number of branches), [2] and the world's largest building society, serving over 16 million members. [3] It operates as a British mutual financial institution, meaning it is owned by and run for the benefit of its members.
By 1888, the address was still at the schoolroom of the Abbey Road Church and the Secretary advised that he would be available on Friday evenings at his home. The early years saw rapid growth in members of the Society from 111 in that first year to over 1,000 in 1884, reaching 2,000 in 1881, 3,000 in 1901 and over 7,000 by the outbreak of WWI ...
Nationwide was also a national sponsor of the 2009 State of the Black Union event. [28] Nationwide hired Vernon Blatz, one of the country's first blind computer programmers, in 1964. He attended the University of Cincinnati Medical Center's trial run of the nation's first training program to educate the blind about careers involving computers. [29]
The conquest of the Canary Islands by the Crown of Castile took place between 1402 and 1496 in two periods: the Conquista señorial, carried out by Castilian nobility in exchange for a covenant of allegiance to the crown, and the Conquista realenga, carried out by the Spanish crown itself during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs.
Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after 20 million euros were found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of a probe into the country's largest-ever cocaine bust.. Described as ...
Image of Portman Chapel Temperance Permanent Benefit Building Society crest from a notice for the fourth Annual General Meeting for members. Portman Chapel Temperance Permanent Benefit Building Society was founded just around the corner from Manchester Square, London in 1881.
Map of 1720 showing the interior kingdoms of peninsular Spain during the Ancient Regime. Map of 1841, made by J. Archer, showing for Spain the territorial division of Floridablanca of 1785. [2] Philip V created, taking as a base the pre-existing provinces created by the Austrias, the institution of the intendancies. Although it is true that ...