2551: When was the 1st British Prime Minister Dec 7, 2021

What is now thought of with the title of 'prime minister' was only called First Lord of the Treasury, officially, before 1905 in Great Britain. This was used for Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who was also First Lord of the Treasury. This is still true today with prime ministers also carrying the less well known title of First Lord of the Treasury. The man usually credited as being the first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole was only de facto the first, but in 1721 was technically named First Lord of the Treasury.

2264: (Old) Blighty Feb 26, 2021

The nickname for England or Britain as 'Blighty' came as military slang, especially as used by the soldiers of the World Wars. In particular, it was used by those in the Indian army as an alteration of the Urdu bilāyatī meaning 'foreign' or often broadly just 'European', though the original Arabic meaning was not so specific and could be used to refer to any region or district. Today it is often used in England affectionately, but obviously stripped of its original meaning.