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.
The Bronze Age of Globalization
Category: History
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.
Happy Plough Monday!
Happy Plough Monday folks!
York Minster from Lop Lane
Whilst poking around on Getty.edu’s art search site I managed to stumble on this fascinating but sadly poor photograph of what is now the junction between Museum Street, St Leonard’s Place, Duncombe Place, and Blake Street. The photos current location can be seen on the StreetView below.
Continue reading “York Minster from Lop Lane”Inside the Globus INK: A Mechanical Navigation Computer for Soviet Spaceflight
Righto.com has a rather delightful introduction to and teardown of a Globus INK – a Soviet-era mechanical navigation aid for spaceflight.
