In early 1939, Sir Henry Drummond – explorer, entrepreneur and creator of the Dancing Henry Almanac – emerged from his library after conducting a seven year study of the planet Earth and announced to the world that four things were essential to our continuing success as a race: higher oceans to promote water sports; better national youth programs, along the lines of those flourishing in Germany; slinkies; and an …
The Best Dad in the World Competition was founded by Sir Henry Drummond in 1946, in an attempt to redress the increased gender equality that followed World War II. Every year Sir Drummond’s assistants scoured newspapers and magazines from around the world to find cases of extraordinary heroism in the name of fatherhood, and the earliest winners of the competition were men who had been willing to sacrifice everything …
After Dancing Henry Almanac founder Sir Henry Drummond’s tragic death in the spring of 1977, several of his unreleased writings, his photograph albums and his comprehensive library of toenail clippings were released to the public. Among them was a project that Sir Henry had begun in 1969 with a view to it one day being as big, if not bigger, than the Dancing Henry Almanac.
From the fragments we have …
