A statue of Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell will be removed from a quayside in Dorset, southern England, as the UK continues to reckon with monuments of its imperialist past. The statue, which was ...
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was an empire builder of the Kipling school. All set to enter Oxford at the age of 19, he took a crack at the Army examinations for a lark, finished second out of ...
Lord Baden-Powell and his wife, Lady Olave Powell, famous for spearheading the worldwide Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movements, lived at ‘Paxtu’ Cottage at the Outspan Hotel in Nyeri County, after buying ...
In the late 1800s, when Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was an officer of the British Army, he wrote his sixth book—his second on scouting. He had spent years stationed in Africa and India, and ...
Now, as Baden-Clay prepares for life in prison, we can reveal the family links that tie Baden-Clay to one of the most influential figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, Scout founder Lord Robert ...
A statue of worldwide Boy Scouts founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell will be “temporarily” removed in southern England amid topplings of controversial monuments, officials said. Amid the surging ...