‘A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe.‘
Ordinary Abundance
Category: History
Why I Still Miss the Golden Age of Lunchtime Children’s Television
Over at CuriousBritishTelly there’s a nice short article of the history of children’s lunchtime TV – Why I Still Miss the Golden Age of Lunchtime Children’s Television.
A Brief Introduction to the Buildings of England’s Jewish Heritage
The Historic England Blog has a nice introduction to some of the buildings of England’s Jewish Heritage. It’s interesting and well worth a read.
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.
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.
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.
How Apple became Apple
FastCompany has a really nice article on Apple’s early history.
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!
Bishopthorpe Ferry
I’ve just added a new page on the Bishopthorpe Ferry to ‘Crossing the Ouse‘. Why not go and have a look?
Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Roman Roads
Itiner-e is a really nice open dataset and atlas of Roman roads. It’s interesting to look at where the paths of the Roman roads have survived long enough to become the foundations of today’s major routes.
