A interesting look at the UK’s amateur Robot Wars scene.
Do I already have too many interests? Yes.
Do I wish I could carve out some time for this? Also yes.
Inside the UK’s Amateur Robot Wars Scene
Month: June 2026
Whitby / Gyrth Russell (1950)
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‘.
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.