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.
Category: Archeology
North Yorkshire Archive Treasures: Lead Mining in the Dales
North Yorkshire Council’s Archive service has a really nice post up on the history of Lead Mining in the Yorkshire Dales.
Fire from the <strike>Gods</strike> Suffolk
LiveScience has a nice article on the earliest discovery of human-controlled fire creation technology. Apparently 400,000 years ago the good people of Suffolk liked to sit around a nice warm fire!