Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/January 2009


 * ... that Flora Drummond was known as "The General" for her habit of leading Women's Suffrage processions (lapel pin pictured) wearing an officer's cap and epaulettes whilst riding a large horse?
 * ... that a design competition for a new Routemaster bus received 225 entries to the Design category, and 475 entries for the Imagine category?
 * ... that lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?
 * ... that the Westminster Retable, a 13th-century panel painting at Westminster Abbey, is the oldest known altarpiece in England?
 * ... that the Scotch Professors, a group of 19th-century Scottish footballers, are credited with inventing the passing style of the modern game and spreading the sport globally?