An old British Railways-Whitby poster from 1950. Pinched from the Science Museum’s rather extensive collection.
I should really do a Railway-Poster-of-the-Day thing in a similar vein to ‘Retro Computer Adverts‘.
Whitby / Gyrth Russell (1950)
Suddenly We Looked Like Giants / Patrick Jonsson (2018)
Patrick Jonsson’s Suddenly We Looked Like Giants from 2018.
The Bronze Age of Globalization
This is an interesting article on the Bronze Age trade in tin and copper in the Mediterranean, it’s subsequent collapse, and how the iron replaced copper, leading to the iron age.
Rat on Mallet / Ogata Gekkō (1900s-1910s)
Ogata Gekkō‘s Rat on Mallet (1900s-1910s).
Apparently rats are a symbol of good luck. Though this image of the print comes from the British Museum’s digital collection, I actually first saw Rat on Mallet as part of York Art Gallery’s Making Waves: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Print exhibit.
Fire: This discovery changed human history by 350,000 years
The British Museum has put out a really nice documentary on the recent discovery of controlled fire in Suffolk some 400,000 years ago.
Alas, in Yorkshire we didn’t receive fire until 1953.
On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
One from the archives; what are the effects of tin foil hats on radio wave propagation in the head? The results may just shock you!
The York Wheel
The York Wheel is back! The York Wheel is back! And here are a set of photos to prove it!
May in Medieval Poetry
It’s the middle of the month and, after a little poking around, I’ve found a really interesting article at ‘A Clerk of Oxford‘ on May in Medieval poetry.
The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Early May 2026
See more of the Middlecave work here!
Join me as we cross the rubicon and find out just which windows have been installed at… the May edition of the Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild!
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Another one from a decade ago (how?!?) – Radiohead’s Burn the Witch. Apparently there was a kerfuffle around the creation of a Trumpton-like music video – especially one shot through with Wicker Man references – but I think it works really well.